Member of Parliament representing the South Dayi Constituency, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has asked the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate all of the high-ranking government officials mentioned in the Work of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) report.

The Galamsey Report by Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, which came to the public domain a few days ago, made a number of accusations against current and former government officials as the cause of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining’s (IMCIM) failure to combat illegal mining in the nation between January 2017 and January 2021.

“We have our client’s instruction to formally petition your high office in accordance with Article 218(a), (c) and (e) of the 1992 Constitution and section 7(1)(a) and (e) of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice Act 1993 (Act 456), to investigate violations of fundamental human rights, alleged corrupt practices, issues of conflict of interest and abuse of public office by certain public officials and other named individuals cited in the Report of the Work of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), authored by Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng”, part of the petition said.

The petition also requests that CHRAJ investigates Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng following an alleged conflict of interest and abuse of office made against Charles Bissue.

“We have our client’s further instruction to also petition your office in respect of allegations of corruption, conflict of interest and abuse of office made by Charles Bissue, the former secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining, against Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, former chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), in respect of matters involving the 500 Excavators that were supposedly missing around February 2020.”

Source: Ghana/Sompaonline.com/Nana Yaw Boamah