Mr Akosua Manu, Deputy CEO of the National Youth Authority (NYA), has appointed Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, as chairperson of the disbanded organization. suggested. The Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) is perhaps the biggest mistake made by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government.
Akosua Manu, a member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP)’s communications team, said Professor Frimpong Boateng’s appointment was a mistake. Because he failed to act when the professor was in charge of the country’s efforts to stop illegal mining (Galamsey).
In an interview on Metro TVβs Good Morning Ghana program on October 30, 2023, the NPP spokesperson said the former minister is conveniently blaming people now that he has stepped down.
“As far as I know, no matter what he’s said before, he himself has no moral right. Because when it matters, when he’s in the chair, he has no right to fight it. Because he made it almost impossible – as he himself said.
ββ¦I donβt know why you were put in that position. You say nothing, you donβt do anything, you turn a blind eye when problems arise. Some people defended it based on what he said,β she said.
Mr. Akosua Manu further added, “You can turn around and start pointing fingers. The biggest mistake of all time would have been to put him in such a position. If he had known that, he wouldn’t have even ventured.”
background:
Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, has criticized Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo, including claims that the government is protecting illegal miners (garam shires) operating in Ghana. = He accused the Addo administration of corruption multiple times. .
In a recent interview with Africa Watch magazine, Professor Frimpong also said that he had rejected a $5 million bribe to approve a judgment debt of more than $88 million against a private company, Apex Pollution Company Limited.
He added that it was government officials who decided to involve the company in paying the judgment debt, even though the company had not done any work.
βSometime in July 2020, while I was at the Department of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, I received a letter from the Ministry of Finance requesting approval for the payment of a judgment debt worth US$88,247,246.63.Again, Apex Pollution 88,247,246.63 USD to Control Company. I couldn’t believe my eyes. There were so many red flags. The Ministry of the Environment had signed an agreement with the company in 2014 to carry out vehicle emissions monitoring, but the project was not implemented at all.
βThe company claimed to have invested $6,613,520.63 in the project and sought a judgment debt. Someone somewhere decided to subject the company to government arbitration and claimed that it had invested $6,613,520.63 in the project, plus the purported initial investment of $6,613,520.63. , offered $20,006,226 as return on investment and $61,627,500 as income loss over 13 years. And this amounted to a whopping $88,247,246.63,β he said in the October/November 2023 issue of Africa Watch magazine. It is said.
He further added, βThe Apex Pollution Control Company was supposed to receive about $82 million for not doing any work. So shocking! To me, there are some irregularities in this. I could see that there was a huge scandal staring us in the face, and I didn’t want to be a part of it.”
The former Minister of Science and Technology was also said to be likely to have been behind the move when former Minister of State (Finance) Charles Adu-Boahene clashed with Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta over the issue. said. Case.
βThe whole thing was too suspicious. When I questioned the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, about it, he told me that perhaps the then Deputy Minister of Finance, Charles Adu Boahen, was behind it. Several members of the Pollution Control Company came to my office and offered me a bribe of US$5 million to approve the judgment debt. I refused and asked them to leave my office. β he added.
Watch what she had to say in the video below.
#Battle with Galamsey:The biggest mistake so far was making Professor Frimpong Boateng the president of IMCIM. He has no moral right to say what he is saying… @KozieOzie #GoodMorningGhana #MetroTV pic.twitter.com/UI6mvbC9kl
β Metro TV Ghana (@metrotvgh) October 30, 2023
Source: ghanaweb.com
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