NDC Chairman Boldly named John Boadu and Others At National Security as Galamsey Kingpins; Shocking Names Dropped -CHECK LIST
Bismark Aborbi-Ayitey claims some bigwigs of the NPP are involved in galamsey. He spoke against the the burning of excavators. Aborbi-Ayitey says President Akufo-Addo is aware of the NPP members involved in galamsey Without any cogent evidence to substantiate his claims, Bismark Aborbi-Ayitey, the Ayawaso West Constituency Chairman of the National Democratic Congress has named some bigwigs of the New Patriotic Party whom he claims to be involved in illegal mining, known popularly as galamsey. Contributing to a panel discussion on illegal mining on Neat FM, he listed a number of high profile NPP members as galamsey kingpins impeding the progress of the fight against the menace. “I’m telling [you] on authority that there is a gentleman called George Asante. George Asante is the PA of General Amanfo, the acting National Security Coordinator. He was part of the National Security operatives who were caught in the forest. He is in BNI cells now. It means people around the National Security Coordinator are doing galamsey. “Kennedy Agyapong said the truth. If you look into it, you’ll realize that John Boadu and the National Organizer are all involved in galamsey. I can tell you that Sammy Awuku is neck-deep in galamsey. Your callers mention a certain Abanga, he is the galamsey partner of the NPP General Secretary. When quizzed by the host on why he has not submitted his evidence to the appropriate authorities to apprehend the persons he alleges are involved in illegal mining, Bismark Aborbi-Ayitey said, “ even the president knows this but the party needs money”. He also cautioned the government against the burning of excavators, warning that it could incur the country further losses. He expressed concern that the government, in trying to solve the galamsey menace, is committing illegality. “I’m scared that the little resources we have as a country will be used to pay judgement debts. We are paying $15 million as judgement debt so we should be careful. We should look at the legal aspect of whatever we are doing so that we don’t incur debts,” he warned. Meanwhile, the Ghana Armed Forces have vowed to destroy all equipment seen on galamsey sites According to the Armed Forces, the destruction of the equipment is the best possible means of ensuring that they do not return to the sites. “The Ghana Armed Forces wishes to once again caution all citizens especially those living in and around major rivers and their tributaries and forest reserves that Operation Halt II is still in progress. Any equipment found in and around water bodies and forest reserves would be destroyed. “These illegal activities were mostly being done in the night or under the cover of darkness protected by armed guards, as used cartridges were found at the sites. The Operation Halt II patrol that accompanies the team was ordered to destroy logistics found in these areas,” the statement released by GAF on Sunday reads. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
Picture of Hon. Muntaka bowing down to Akufo-Addo puts social media on fire
The 2020 elections were one of the keenly contested in the history of the nation. It was so keenly contested such that it ended in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court settled the issue though many were still not satisfied. Some have been wondering why the flagbearer of the biggest opposition is yet to congratulate President Akufo-Addo. The President yesterday delivered an address to the Fourth Ordinary Session of the Fifth Parliament of the Pan African Parliament in South Africa. The president was escorted by some dignitaries like Hon. Joseph Osei Owusu, Annor Dompreh, Mohammed Muntaka etc. in addressing the Pan African Parliament, he expressed hope Parliaments on the African continent will be accountable to the people who elected them He also talked about Parliaments learning from each other so as to enhance development and uniformity. He maintained that Agenda 2063 is still alive, when Africans will create, ‘The Africa we all want in our time’. A number of photos of the event was posted on the President’s timeline on Facebook. One interesting one was the seeing Muntaka bowing down to Akufo-Addo. Its strange that in Ghana many of the opposition would shy away from this and yet do it on a grand scale overseas. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
Kennedy Agyapong drops names of those engage in galamsey
Outspoken Ghanaian politician, Hon Kennedy Agyapong has dropped one of the names of the government officials who are the bane of illegal mining in the nation. According to the member of Parliament for Assin Central in a phone interview with a TV station, though Otumfuo Osei Tutu mentioned that most of his colleagues are behind the excess illegal mining in the country, there’s a governmental body that has more influence on the activity. He mentioned that the Ghana Mineral Commission which is headed by Mr. SK Boafu is the main brain behind galamsey in the nation. The business mogul explained that it is the Mineral Commission that deploys people to mine particular places for gold. He continued that though it’s a governmental institution, the government has only small control over it. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
Fix the country; I won’t apologize to anybody–Twene Jonas (WATCH)
Social media critic, Twene Jonas has fired back at people who are calling him to render an apology to leaders especially Otumfuo Osei Tutu II for insulting them. The Ghanaian US-based social media commentator has been criticizing leaders in Ghana for failing to address the challenges in the country. Twene Jonas criticizing political leaders during one of his Facebook live videos on their inability to fight illegal mining in the country extended his insults to Ashanti King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and other chiefs. He blamed Asantehene for the illegal mining crisis in his region because he is covering up some big men involved in the business. Following his rants, some chiefs and other natives of Ashanti have urged him to fly to Ghana and apologize to Otumfuo for disrespecting him. But according to Twene Jonas in a new video sighted by our outfit, he’s doesn’t owe anybody an apology and he’ll continue to speak the truth. Video Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
Attorney General’s Politically Inspired Propaganda To Tarnish Amidu’s Integrity On MPs Double Salary–Amidu
Martin Amidu the Ghanaian former Special Prosecutor has rubbished the claim of ever being in charge of prosecuting Members of Parliament who were allegedly involved in taken double salaries. “Attorney General’s Politically Inspired Propaganda To Tarnish Amidu’s Integrity On MPs Double Salary” According to Mr Amidu, the Office of the Attorney General never transferred the docket to his office for prosecution for him to have failed or refused to prosecute same before his resignation. Mr Amidu said this in a statement to react to claims on Accra-based Oman FM and a publication by the Daily Guide Network to the effect that he was in charge of prosecuting the lawmakers found culpable of taking double salaries but did not do so before leaving office. Mr Amidu described the allegation as “a politically-inspired propaganda against my integrity, which sought to link my resignation to the failure or refusal of this irredeemably corrupt government for four whole years to deal with the simple offence of double salary or stealing (as the Criminal Investigations Department of the Police Service put it), are false, infantile and barefaced lies intentionally concocted and put out by the Office of the Attorney General to the unsuspecting public under the sub-heading ‘Godfred Yeboah-Dame’”. “The effigy of the Attorney General published alongside the concocted falsehoods of me resigning without prosecuting a case which was never handled by my office during my tenure as the Special Prosecutor demonstrates how shamefully low the hitherto respected ethical Office of the Attorney General, which I had the privilege of serving in for over fourteen years of my career, has descended into since 7th January 2021,” he added. According to Mr Amidu, throughout his tenure as the Special Prosecutor, “the respected former Attorney General, Ms Gloria Akuffo, never referred this case to me for further investigation or prosecution. Any experienced and ethical person who has ever occupied the office of Deputy Minister of Justice under the Constitution knows that the Attorney General never sends a docket to another independent investigatory or prosecutorial agency without a covering letter forwarding the docket with requisite instructions or requests.” Read Mr Amidu’s full statement below: THE MPs DOUBLE SALARY CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DOCKET WAS HANDLED BY THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND NEVER BY MARTIN AMIDU AS SPECIAL PROSECUTOR: BY MARTIN A. B. K. AMIDU Introduction On 17th May 2021, a friend called my attention to the fact that he had heard a radio discussion on Oman FM in which I was being blamed for the Government’s inability to prosecute the Members of Parliaments’ double salary case which the Office of the Attorney General had allegedly transferred to my office for prosecution, and I had failed or refused to prosecute same before my resignation. This was certainly a deliberate and knowing concoction of fake news from the newly minted Office of the Attorney General to assassinate my integrity and character. My researches led me to the Daily Guide Network report in its publication of 10th May 2021 under the heading: “MPs Double Salary Bounces Back” in which it attributed the inability of the Attorney-General’s Office to prosecute the suspects in the case that has come to be known as the Members of Parliament Double Salary Scandal to the infantile and banal fact that: “the Office of the Special Prosecutor which was headed by former Attorney General Martin A.B.K. Amidu, took over the case to do the prosecution but the process was not completed until he resigned late last year.” Attorney General’s Politically Inspired Propaganda To Tarnish Amidu’s Integrity On MPs Double Salary The politically inspired propaganda against my integrity which sought to link my resignation to the failure or refusal of this irredeemably corrupt Government for four whole years to deal with the simple offence of double salary or stealing (as the Criminal Investigations Department of the Police Service put it), are false, infantile and barefaced lies intentionally concocted and put out by the Office of the Attorney-General to the unsuspecting public under the sub-heading “Godfred Yeboah-Dame.” The effigy of the Attorney-General published alongside the concocted falsehoods of me resigning without prosecuting a case which was never handled by my office during my tenure as the Special Prosecutor demonstrates how shamefully low the hitherto respected ethical Office of the Attorney-General which I had the privilege of serving in for over fourteen years of my career has descended into since 7th January 2021. Throughout my tenure as the Special Prosecutor, the respected former Attorney General, Ms Gloria Akuffo, never referred this case to me for further investigation or prosecution. Any experienced and ethical person who has ever occupied the office of Deputy Minister of Justice under the Constitution knows that the Attorney General never sends a docket to another independent investigatory or prosecutorial agency without a covering letter forwarding the docket with requisite instructions or requests. Mr Godfred Yeboah Dame, the young and inexperienced Attorney General, should know now that he is the Attorney General that there are no records in his office or the Director of Public Prosecution’s office showing that the Attorney General, Ms Gloria Akuffo, old enough to be Mr Dame’s mother, sent any docket on this case to me as Special Prosecutor to prosecute. No such letter was ever received by me when I was the Special Prosecutor, and no records exist in the Office of the Special Prosecutor of receipt of such a letter or docket from Ms Gloria Akuffo. Mr Godfred Yeboah Dame, under whose name the Daily Guide Network reports and attributes the infantile lies that: ‘The Office of the Special Prosecutor, which was headed by former Attorney General Martin A.B.K. Amidu, took over the case to do the prosecution but the process was not completed until he resigned late last year’, ought to have developed the capability of asking the Director of Public Prosecutions as to the status of the case instead of linking to my resignation to a matter which never came under my watch just to assassinate my character. President Akufo-Addo Determines
Akufo-Addo controls criminal prosecutions, not Attorney General – Amidu
Martin Amidu the former Special Prosecutor has accused the Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of interfering in the prosecution of some selected Members of Parliament accused of taking double salaries in exchange that the alleged culprits will cooperate with his government in parliament. According to Mr Amidu, although the Attorney General then, Gloria Akuffo and the Director of Public Prosecutions had both perused the case docket and had come to the conclusion that charges be filed against some of the lawmakers, the President ordered them to stop. Mr Amidu in a statement noted that: “This view is consistent with the clear unconstitutional usurpation of the independent exercise of prosecutorial discretion of the Attorney General by President Nana Akufo-Addo in his response to a question asked by Kweku Dawuro of Kingdom FM on the government’s fight against corruption on 13th December 2019, particularly the prosecution of the double salaries and other criminal cases. The President unconstitutionally assumed the status of the Attorney General of Ghana and shockingly said, inter alia, on the members of parliament double salary cases as follows: ‘…The double salary and members of parliament: it is not a straightforward allegation of misappropriation that some people think. There is a whole lot of double counting, to what extent people were taking money vis- a-vis the emolument of the article 70 and all that, and I am thinking that unless the thing is really clear cut and it has not been made quite clear to me, to rein a whole lot of parliamentarians and the list is quite a lot, to rein a whole lot of parliamentarians on a fifty -fifty case, for myself I don’t think that we will be doing the public interest of our country any service in that way. So the process of seeing to what extent the set off can be, there is been ongoing, there is a group doing that work and when they finish we be in a position to let the country know what the final outcome of the double salary thing is….’” According to the 1992 constitution the prosecutorial powers of the Republic of Ghana is vested in the Attorney-General who is professionally responsible for prosecutorial decisions made on a non-partisan basis. However, the former Special Prosecutor said having served as Deputy Attorney General and Attorney General for almost 14 years he can testify to the fact that no Head of State or President ever sought to direct or interfere with the prosecutorial discretion of the Attorney General during that period but President Akufo-Addo’s response at the media encounter of 13th December 2019 was the first time he heard a President “unashamedly and publicly usurping an independent prosecutorial constitutional discretion of an Attorney General.” He noted that the allusion by President Akufo-Addo to a group performing the constitutional duties of the Attorney General to enable him to decide, and “be in a position to let the country know what the final outcome of the double salary thing is…” shows beyond every reasonable doubt the interfering role of President Akufo-Addo in the administration of criminal justice in deciding who must or must not be prosecuted for crime and not the Attorney General. In Mr Amidu’s view, “the Attorney General regrettably became a poodle of the President by ceding his or her constitutional prosecutorial mandate to the usurping President”. Mr Amidu said these in reaction to claims on Accra-based Oman FM and a publication by the Daily Guide Network to the effect that he was in charge of prosecuting the lawmakers found culpable of taken double salaries but was unable to prosecute them before resigning from office. According to Mr Amidu, the Office of the Attorney General never transferred the docket to his office for prosecution for him to have failed or refused to prosecute same before his resignation. Mr Amidu described the allegation as “a politically inspired propaganda against my integrity which sought to link my resignation to the failure or refusal of this irredeemably corrupt Government for four whole years to deal with the simple offence of double salary or stealing (as the Criminal Investigations Department of the Police Service put it), are false, infantile and barefaced lies intentionally concocted and put out by the Office of the Attorney-General to the unsuspecting public under the sub-heading ‘Godfred Yeboah-Dame.’” “The effigy of the Attorney-General published alongside the concocted falsehoods of me resigning without prosecuting a case which was never handled by my office during my tenure as the Special Prosecutor demonstrates how shamefully low the hitherto respected ethical Office of the Attorney-General which I had the privilege of serving in for over fourteen years of my career has descended into since 7th January 2021,” he added. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093