The Upper East Regional Stephen Yakubu has assured officials of Shaanxi and now Earl International Group (GH) Gold Limited that the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources visit to them, was to basically give them more soup to eat their fufu. Apexnewsgh.com reports A pronouncement that did not go well to the embattled Yeyenya Mining Enterprise who is currently having lots of issues with his colleague Chinese mining partner. Mr. Yakubu made the pronouncement to the Chinese officials at the Conference hall of Earl International Group (GH) Gold Limited on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, during the visit of the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Samuel Abu Jinapor. The Regional Minister who acknowledging the efforts of the Sector Minister told officials of Earl International Group (GH) Gold Limited that “…where we are today, is because of Honorable Sector minister’s help. And all the time, I keep telling you that we want the benefit as you also want the benefit”. However, officials of Yenyeya Mining Enterprise told Apexnewsgh.com that the Minister is supposed to be an arbitrator between them and Earl International but his pronouncement about the sector Minister’s coming to give more soup to Earl International to eat their fufu was shocking to them. “We all thank the Sector Minister for coming here to basically give you more soup to eat your fufu” However, the Regional Minister told Apexnews Gh that he is an arbiter who is trying to bring peace to the area. The Minister said, he only came in when all these agreements were ratified by parliament and those things has been done. “…but I am interested because of the jobs and also to make sure the two guys that are fighting, the agreement that they signed, they can go back to that agreement and then there will be peace and then all of them will meet each other and sort it out. That is why I come in with Mineral Commission. That’s all. So, if they have any problem, I have told them, you can go to the mineral Commission and resolved it, you can go to the minister and resolved it. But for me, what is on the table, I tried to make sure that the two of you don’t fight”. Mr. Yakubu said More to come Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
UER: Acting PRO of Yenyeya Mining Enterprise Accused Upper East Reg. Minister of…
The Acting Public Relation Officer (PRO) of Yenyeya Mining Enterprise, a mining firm operating in the Gbane Community in Talensi District of the Upper East Region Jarvis Avoka has accused the Upper East Regional Minister Stephen Yakubu of denying them (Yenyeya) the opportunity to addressed some concerns during the Sector Minister’s Visit to the region. Apexnewsgh.com reports The Sector Minister for Land and Natural resources Samual Abu Jinapor in a one-day visit to the Upper East Region mining site in Gbane community where he met with the officials of Earl International Group (GH) Gold Limited. However, his visit has brought some level of dissatisfaction to officials of Yenyeya Mining Enterprise who were not excited with the treatment offered them by the Regional Minister and some other concerns such as not receiving any formal letter regarding the visit of the Sector Minister. Yenyeya also described the Regional Minister’s action of leading the sector minister to the site in dispute as an illegality. “That morning, my boss informed me that the minister is coming and my worry was that, whether we were invited? NO. No one gave him any formal notice that the sector Minister was visiting. So, we just went there and sat. Then they said, the minister was coming at 12 pm. If you check my Facebook wall you will see that i made a post when I saw Earl International Group (GH) Gold Limited welcomes you Hon Samuel Abu Jinapor Minister for Lands and Natural Resources and your entourage to our operation site Gbane that, “…the matter is in court. Lawyers for the Chinese prayed the court for an out-of-court settlement. The presiding judge granted this request. Discussions commenced with the Upper East Regional Minister as the key arbiter. …. This letter that the Minerals Commission wrote with the keyword “demobilize” was recently published… Today, the key arbiter is leading the Sector Minister to visit the same site amidst funfair to validate the illegality and arm-twist the two local small-scale mining license holders? ….. Impunity? Disregard for our laws and legal processes court authority?” Yenyeya Acting PRO Jarvis Avoka complained on his Facebook wall, the day of the Sector Minister’s visit to Gbane. He also raised another concern, that the Regional Minister who happens to be the arbitrator between them and the Chinese people denied officials of Yenyeya the opportunity to air their concerns during the visit of the sector minister, hence allowed officials of Earl International to make a presentation as they claimed, the 38 small scale miner involved have been settled and compensated and there were no issues on the ground. “When the Sector Minister came, he just addressed the house and said that he has no time to go round the facility as they initially planned because of time, he would want to go. So Maxwell Wooma made a Presentation and afterward, my boss (Charles) wanted to say something and the Regional Minister said, due to lack of time, he should rather come to the residency”. Jarvis told Apexnews Gh However, when Apexnewsgh.com contacted Regional Minister Stephen Yakubu on his part of the story he said, Mr. Charles Ndabon did not catch the eye of the Sector Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Samuel Abu Jinapor. But he later realized that Mr. Ndabon wanted to say something and he quickly informed him to come to the RCC where the Sector Minister was supposed to meet with some other small-scale miners and that was when they were about leaving the site. “After going around Cardinal Resources, we were very tired. So, the Minister told me, we are going to spend only 15 minutes there. So, Maxwell, their PRO got up and introduced themselves, they even introduced Charles he was there and they introduced him and the Minister wanted to leave and then Maxwell begged and said he wanted to explain a few things to the sector minister. So, we all waited and Maxwell put up this thing and we all listen, after that when we are to go, Charles then wanted to ask a question and the Sector Minister didn’t catch his eye. So, I realized he wanted to ask a question, then I asked him to come to the RCC”. Responding to the issue of not giving formal notice to Yenyeya Mining Enterprise regarding the coming of the sector minister, the Minister said, is not his responsibility to inform the miners about the Sector minister’s visit and must not be blamed for that. He said that is the job of the Mineral Commission and Ministry. “Am i the one who is supposed to inform them? Is it not Mineral Commission? If the Ministry is coming to meet people, is it not the Ministry who should do all these things. So, wherever they heard and they came to the meeting what was wrong? If they didn’t catch the eye of the Minister and I signal him that, there is another meeting, that you can come there and ask your questions, why didn’t they come? Because I was only doing them a favor. I am very surprised, Charles should be the last person….Because this world is not a fair place, because when you are trying to do the right thing for people, people don’t like it that way. Because my brother, I brought these things on the table and before I came, none of these were on the table. Upper East Regional Minister responded More to come… Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
Go back to court, I don’t think your chief arbitrator is giving you fair treatment —Paul Danka gives free advice to Yenyeya Mining Enterprise
John Paul Danka a Communication Team member of the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) who doubles as a native of Talensi District of the Upper East Region has advised Yenyeya Mining Enterprise an aggrieved registered small scale mining company operating in Gbane Community to proceed back to court. Apexnewsgh.com reports According to a brief history between Yenyeya Mining Enterprise and Shaanxi Mining Limited now known as EARL International. It is public knowledge that Shaanxi mining now Earl International Group (GH) Gold Mining Limited came into Gbane community of Talensi through Yenyeya the owner of the concession they currently occupied. It is also public knowledge that Shaanxi Mining was brought in to give Yenyeya a mining support service. It is also public knowledge that these two entities have worked together as partners since 2008. However, the latest development causing albatross per what is out there in the public domain got to do with the Chinese moving into a large-scale mining business under the name “Earl International Group (GH) Gold Mining Limited” through the back door which has been described as a strategy of taking over the concession that belonged to Yenyeya (his Ghanaian employer). Yenyeya Mining Enterprise later went to court praying for “an independent professional auditor” to audit the “mining operations and other related activities” that have been carried out inside the Yenyeya Mining Enterprise’s concession from 2008 to date. However, the Plaintiff is also praying the High Court to pronounce a restraining order “in the nature of a perpetual injunction” stopping Earl International Group (GH) Gold Mining Limited “from doing illegal mining and related activities” in the Yenyeya Mining Enterprise’s small-scale concession and from entering the concession until the court case is over. Yenyeya Mining Enterprise further seek “relief for damages resulting from injury caused to Plaintiff’s rights by the willful and malicious conversion of Plaintiff’s ownership of its small-scale mining concession by the defendants”. It is also looking for relief for “damages sustained from injury to Plaintiff’s property resulting from breach of contract and the unauthorized and wrongful exercise of control over Plaintiff’s concession by the defendants”. But according to Mr. Danka who was speaking on Dreams FM Morning Show monitored by Apexnewsgh.com on October 8, 2021, the actions exhibited so far by the regional minister who happens to be the arbitrator between the mining partners has not shown any atom of equal fairness to Yenyeya Mining Enterprise. “I was expecting that time the sector/regional minister will be giving the commentary and even before the company that are coming in are given there prospective licensing and what have you per whichever stage they have gotten to MOU should have been signed with the assembly and our Tidaan and Chiefs been parts of these MOUs. “Because our land tenant system here they should remember, is different from any other land system here in the country depending on where you found yourself. In Talensi, we know that Tindaana’s own lands so they need to be part of parcel of these MOUs and to appreciate exactly what the mining Companies have brought”. “And here is the situation, the politicians is usual of them, we will come and speak big big grammer, introduce the miners to you chiefs and what have you and they will leave you and whatever they have signed for the companies and what the companies are giving them in return, they have taken their share and they are gone. And remember, an appointment is not forever”. “So, I am expecting that by now, we should have been talking about MOU been signed by the assembly and telling the people of Talensi what they intend to do for us in 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, 15 years 20 years as they mine, so that we can track their activities. This is what they called, (we are learning from the past). But what they did, is the same thing. The repeated has been happening. Those coming to chief created an impression that they are the best, but they can’t be at the site to know the damage and how activities will affect the people on the ground. That is the situation we are still confronted with” “You see, the companies they have mentioned their names apart from I think Cardinal Resource that am aware that they had their own concession. ”This company that they went to visit for instance… Why are we doing this to ourselves? You see, the regional minister mislead the sector minister. Because we all know that where he went and met EARL is not for EARL. Shaanxi is no more Shaanxi because Shaanxi should have even moved their things long ago. You see, in all these happenings, I blamed Yenyeya, I still don’t know what they are waiting for. They are your employees, you didn’t even need to wait for these people to come and write to them to leave because the law is no more working. Once you have been told to demobilize and leave, so be it. EARL claimed they have paid compensation to other people close to 16 square acre, you should have gone to meet them there. Do you meet Cardinal Resource in somebody’s concession? He questioned And you see, the matter is at court concerning certain unfilled agreements they have not done and you the Regional Minister requested for an out of court settlement, you are now the Chief arbitrator of this case and you know that there is an injunction that no one should enter the place and no one should use the place. So, how then did you the Chief arbitrator get up and be following one party? When you know that we have not solved the problem, the problem is not been solved, we have not finished. For me, I will advise Yenyeya, they should go back to the court because, the way and manner the chief arbitrator is acting, I don’t think they will get any fair treatment from him. They should go back
Unexpected clash between Yenyeya and Shaanxi goes to High Court
A clash that came out of the blue between the Yenyeya Mining Enterprise and the Shaanxi Mining Ghana Ltd has gone to a High Court in Bolgatanga where the former is seriously seeking “relief for damages resulting from injury” reportedly caused by the latter and two other entities. It never was expected that the two parties would end up fighting each other fiercely today as they had worked so close in unbroken harmony since they entered into a business partnership in 2008. The Shaanxi Mining Ghana Ltd, owned by a Chinese tycoon Wei Xing, had been rendering technical support services to the Yenyeya Mining Enterprise at Gbane, a community in the Talensi District, prior to the clash. The two business entities entered into an agreement in 2008. Reports about an internal discord erupting between the two partners seeped into the public domain when Charles Taleog Ndanbon, a Ghanaian-born Managing Director of the Yenyeya Mining Enterprise who is credited with bringing Shaanxi to Talensi about 13 years ago, began to complain in the open about the same Chinese company. According to Ndanbon, Shaanxi (the guest partner) had initiated a unilateral move to go into a large-scale mining business under the name “Earl International Group (GH) Gold Mining Limited” and had hatched a plot to take over the concession that belonged to Yenyeya (the host partner) and to exclude Yenyeya from the proposed large-scale mining regime. Not too long ago, he also publicly claimed something incredible happened to him as he was making his way one day to his office which was inside the Gbane yard he shared with Shaanxi. He said when he was about to drive into the compound freely as usual of him as a host and a boss, he was disallowed at the gates to the ‘Jericho Walls’ by the security personnel who, according to him, said they had been strictly instructed by the Shaanxi chief, Wei Xing, to keep him off the yard. He also said he reported the development to police upon advice from confidants. And weeks later, he headed for court. But before then, he had recapped some of the complaints in a press statement also seen on social media platforms. Statement of Claim A Statement of Claim attached to the Writ of Summons, which also was dispatched from the High Court to Wei Xing as 2nd Defendant and the Earl International Group (GH) Gold Mining Limited as 3rd Defendant, has the Yenyeya Mining Enterprise also seeking for a court declaration that Shaanxi (the 1st Defendant) is in breach of a “Contract Mining and Management Agreement” purportedly executed between Yenyeya and Shaanxi on September 24, 2008. The Plaintiff (Yenyeya Mining Enterprise) also wants the court to order for the appointment of “an independent professional auditor” to audit the “mining operations and other related activities” that have been carried out inside the Yenyeya Mining Enterprise’s concession from 2008 to date. Besides, the Plaintiff is praying the High Court to pronounce a restraining order “in the nature of a perpetual injunction” stopping Earl International Group (GH) Gold Mining Limited “from doing illegal mining and related activities” in the Yenyeya Mining Enterprise’s small-scale concession and from entering the concession until the court case is over. Furthermore, the Yenyeya Mining Enterprise is seeking “relief for damages resulting from injury caused to Plaintiff’s rights by the willful and malicious conversion of Plaintiff’s ownership of its small-scale mining concession by the defendants”. It is also looking for relief for “damages sustained from injury to Plaintiff’s property resulting from breach of contract and the unauthorised and wrongful exercise of control over Plaintiff’s concession by the defendants”. The Yenyeya Mining Enterprise, in the last paragraph of its Statement of Claim, wants the court to declare an order for Shaanxi Mining Ghana Ltd to pay the Plaintiff “produce of gold due and owing for the last three years as well as interest on the said debt at the prevailing commercial bank rate until the date of final payment”. By Edward Adeti Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093









