Unique Mining Group, one of the Small Scale Mining Group operating in the Gbene community of the Talensi District in the Upper East Region has requested the Upper East Regional Minister to disclose the money he received from Earl International Group Ghana Gold Limited on behalf of Unique Mining Group.
A letter written by the leadership of the Unique Mining Group and directed to the Upper East Regional Minister Mr. Stephen Yakubu which was sighted by Apexnewsgh.com with a reference number UN/Ma/01 dated December 29, 2022, and signed by the acting Chairman of the group Mr. Abdulai Amaligo says, “the request has become necessary because we are not sure of the total amount either by cheque or cash paid through the UERCC for onward delivery to our group (Unique Mining Group)”.
The leadership of the group who are not satisfied with happenings regarding their share of money paid by Earl International also demands for more and better particulars.
“We also wish to request for the dates of payments and the currency used for the payments”. they further requested
We respectfully expect you to address our request within seven (7) working days from the day of receipt of this letter for us to decide the next line of action. The letter said.
Meanwhile, during my earlier conversation with the Regional Minister December 8, 2022 on the same Unique Mining Group issue, the Regional Minister Stephen Yakubu, did not deny receiving the money from Earl International on behalf of the small-scale miners, he said his intervention through the RCC was to make sure peace returned at the mining area. But responding to why the disputed money was paid to an individual instead of a group, Mr. Yakubu said, the name of the individual was given to him by the Mineral Commission as the leader of the Unique Mining Group.
Perhaps, on this current development, numerous efforts made by the platform through phone calls and messages in both WhatsApp and SmS to get the Regional Minister’s response to the said letter were not successful.
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Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana
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