President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given permission for the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to look into claims made by Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng that certain presidential personnel were involved in unlawful small-scale mining (galamsey).
In an exclusive interview with GBC News on March 10, 2023, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng revealed how members of his own political party were sabotaging him internally, including those at the Jubilee House who were still engaged in galamsey.
“Let me tell you that I did not take one excavator for anything; they know the truth. Now things are coming up; we know those who are behind it and the party people who are there; people in government, including Jubilee House, who are doing galamsey and so on, even now. There was an orchestrated scheme, even within the party and government, to get me out. Why is it that when I left, now everyone is in the forest?” he said.
The MP for Builsa South, Dr. Clement Abas Apaak, has also called for an investigation into the claims made by Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng. According to him, the fact that they come from a former member of the NPP government cannot be disregarded.
In a twitter post sighted by Tru News Report, Clement Apaak said “We demand an investigation into allegations by Prof. Boateng, a former NPP Minister, then head of the anti-galamsey fight, that ‘People in the NPP, people in government and people in the Jubilee House are engaged in galamsey.’ Galamsey is a crime and those involved must be punished.”
Source – Tru News Report
