The Upper East Regional Minister Stephen Yakubu has denied an alleged threat issued against his party Regional Organizer Charles Taleog Ndanbon who also doubles as the Managing Director (MD) of a registered mining firm known as Yenyeya Mining Enterprise operating in Gbene a community in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region.
The Regional Minister denied the alleged threat allegation during an engagement with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com on Friday, January 27, 2023.
In some other engagement, the Managing Director of Yenyeya Mining Enterprise Hon. Charles T. Ndanbon has registered some amount of dissatisfaction over what he described as a threat from Minister Stephen Yakubu. According to him, The Minister had cautioned him not to set foot at his mining site again, adding that if he insisted, he will let police and military arrest him. A threat Hon. Ndanbon found it very ridiculous.
Meanwhile, when this platform asked the Minister about the alleged threat, he responded by saying: “I didn’t threaten him, he reported me to the party because we have agreed, the company agreed to pay him some money and he said that am wasting his time for the company to pay him. And I told him, and I have communication with Charles, I can prove this. The company said they will pay him so so and so and am not holding the money in my pocket to be given to him, So is the company that is arranging to pay him and Charles was always on me about that.
“In fact, they gave them 6 months to pay the money to them, because they agreed they were going to accept this offer that the company should pay them and the company [Earl International] said, they were going to pay them within 6 months. So within these 6months, Charles even took me to the regional party executive.
When he took me there, we sat on the matter and I explained to them that, this is what we have done so far and the company is saying that they will pay within a certain time, so is not me that has gotten the money to give to Charles and am not given him. Of course, the company had earlier pay some monies, which they said they are not happy with and they went ahead and negotiated for more and that money is there. So, if he wants that money, he can come for it because as for that money, he knows that is his money. He can come for it and wait for the other one to be paid”.
He further explained“After we talked about this, when we left, Charles got his lawyer and write to me saying he is giving me only one month to be able to get the company to pay him. I am just a facilitator, I am not the company, I am not mineral commission, I am just facilitating. I told him, this one month you have given me to do this, this is not what we agreed. So, we organized a meeting, that day his lawyer was there, he Charles was there, Mineral Commission were there for us to look at it. In this world we are, we have to be telling the truth. So, at this moment what will I do? I am not the company, I am just helping for my citizens in the region to get what they accepted
The Regional Minister explained that, despite all his efforts, Hon. Ndanbon reported him across the country to some of the party big men
“That was my conversation with Charles, and the next minute Charles went round and said he didn’t ask me to go and negotiate on his behalf. So, if you didn’t ask me to go and negotiate on his behalf, how is he then putting a lot of pressure on me? He went to Bugre Naabu, call Bugre Naabu and ask him, he went to Alhaji Sulemana Yirimea who is a member of the Council of State, he took me to a number of places as if it was me who is not allowing the company to pay him. The Regional Minister laments
Hon. Charles Ndanbon has agreed to give his response soon
More to come…
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This is the case of the chicken and the egg, who’s older? The Regional Minister as a facilitator should put himself into the shoes of the Regional Organiser. If all the terms were met by the Earl Company,there would be no need for unnecessary mudslings, allegations and counter allegations. You can’t stop a hungry man from crying.
These foreigners can’t come cheaply and exploit our resources under questionable and technical arm twisting agreements with the support of the officials entrusted to protect and support local participation.
Must it take so long to pay the Regional Organiser’s company? To facilitate, demands amicable resolution to both parties.
My Honourable Minister should exercise a modicum of patience, because an arbitrator has iron jaws to receive stray punches.
You have the trust of both parties and the ability to let Earl company fulfil their obligations and terms of agreement within all the unnecessary legal tussles.
As a father of the region, insist on getting fairness and equity.
The virus that kills the elephant is unseen,and I don’t think if your party is voted out of power,you will still be a minister.
Earl is protected to do business for the general good of Ghana and the local communities. No bird destroys its nest during the rainy season.
Once you agreed to facilitate, please facilitate to a successful and Happy conclusion. Blame game, insults, bitterness and rancour destroys all parties.
Please expedite action and call the two parties to a round table and when the proper thing is done, then you will shake hands and share political jokes.