Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has indicated that presidential staffer Charles Cromwell Bissue cannot claim innocence in the latest exposé on corrupt practices hampering the fight against illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey.
This is what we found in Galamsey Fraud Part 1
We found Mr Bissiw abusing his office, breaching his fiduciary duties, engaging in bribery and corruption. These were uncovered by way of hard facts, captured on audio/visual recording, and electronic correspondence.
Mr Andy Owusu, a link man for Mr Bissiw charged us fifty thousand cedis (GH¢ 50,000.00) to get us through to him. We negotiated for forty thousand Cedis (GH¢40,000.00) and he accepted it. Out of this amount he accepted part payment of fifteen thousand cedis (15,000.00). Mr Andy Owusu was also the one who told us how much Mr Bissiw was ready to accept to fast track the process for us. Mr Andy Owusu also linked us to “schoolboy” a national security operative for our safety at the illegal mining site.
My outfit, ORR Resource Enterprise, presented itself as a small scale mining company, whose license to mine had expired. In spite of this expiration, we still wanted to mine. We were prepared to go by the government’s directive to be vetted and verified by the IMCIM.
Under the Road Map for lifting of ban on artisanal and small scale mining and the way forward prepared by the IMCIM and published in August 2018, it was agreed that miners can go back to mine when the ban was lifted only after meeting the following requirements:
*Inspection of documents-mining licenses, environmental and operating permits, Tax Identification Number (TIN), and company registration details.
*Advertisement of Vetting Exercise including informing Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners (GNASSM).
* Field Mapping and Verification of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Concessions; includes, mapping of boundaries of companies using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and drone technology to verify the existence and accuracy and location of each concession using GhanaPostGPS digital address system.
* Identification Cards to be issued to successful y vetted small scale mining companies
*Signpost to be erected at the concessions of the successfully vetted companies.
Contrary to the verification and vetting procedure as listed in paragraph 2.4 above, Mr Bissiw circumvented some of the procedures for ORR Resources Enterprise for a fee. We did not go through any vetting procedure.
We did not go through the Minerals Commission, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Water Resources Commission (WRC) and Forestry Commission. Mr Bissiw took care of all of that for ORR.
We have paid Mr Bissiw a total of thirty five thousand cedis (GH¢35,000.00) in cash. Our first payment of fifteen thousand cedis (GH¢15,000.00) was made on 22nd January, 2019, through Mr Andy Owusu IMCIM near Jubilee House. We made a second payment of ten thousand cedis (GH¢10,000.00) on 30th of January, 2019 at the same place. The last payment was on 8th of February 2019. We paid Mr Bissiw ten thousand cedis (GH¢ 10,000.00).
Officials of IMCIM did not verify our concession document and did not make any demand for a power of attorney in the absence of the bona fide owner of the concession. We are of the considered opinion that the neglect and or failure to make a determination as to whether we were representatives of the owner was as a result of the money we paid to Mr. Bissiw.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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i hate when people start making use.lez comments like why anas is publishing videos now not in mills - mahama era. we moving from a cardinal to a point, why cant we accept the fact that we all wanna make correction this time. RAW TAPE?, the government can come again, haha. lets fight corruption no matter who is affacted rather to defending andy and trying to jail wayome
Why did this Anas kept the corrupt video of John mahama's government but is in a hurry to publish any ***barred word*** thing about this government just to make it look bad but it will not wash. If he is a genuine investigator why is the police still looking for who killed Ahmed? Listen, I heard this from my elderly in our family that in the olden days, the Chief of Akyem Apadwa called Nana Achia Mensah was murdered and as much as they did the investigations they couldn't find where the body was buried, our country was under colonial rule that time, then a CID who was a Gold Coaster and from the Central region was assigned to live in Apadwa and investigate the death of the chief and where he was buried. He rented a room and made himself as a palm wine tapper, who always go to the ***barred word*** and brought palm wine and also got drunk like the others, they never new the guy was a policeman but all they knew was a drunkard and a palm wine tapper, through that he was able to gather all the information and even where the chief was buried and who did that through his friends who were also drunkards and have a base they met.He associated with thd murderers too and nobody took him serious because he was drunk all the time. he lived there for over a year to get all the information and the site of the burial, he was buried in a river. They stopped the water from flowing dug the pit and buried the man so nobody could know where he was. After gathering all the information he left the town without telling know one and the town folks didn't know where he went only for the police to surround the town one day and all the culprits arrested and where he was buried in the flowing river dug and ---- wala !there was the body and was exhumed. Over 60 years ago but the police CID didnt cover his face to give money to the town folks for information but everything went perfect! that was during the colonial era!at this age and we allow Anas to cover his face to deceive us and to build his stomach infrastructure! are we alright? It is about time we allow our institutions work not a journalist covering his face to extort people when we have the BNI,CID & co.
You see corruption yet you defend it as if you don't think. Some of you are the reasons these people are destroying the country and they won't change so long as they know dumb youths like you will always defend them. Think twice whether Anas is corrupt or not what those guys did is completely wrong and they must be called to book. In other countries they would have been sentenced to death. They are aiding to destroy the water bodies and you see nothing wrong with that but everything wrong with the one who brought out the truth??? Shame on you all!!!
Has anyone thought of the fact that anas could use this his strategy to commit ev1l but when caught he will say its an investigation? on a more serious note, this is not the galamsey video his boss said will be explosive. the video he could not release was done before 2017. he only did this one to blackmail the npp government. the guy is a cr1m1nal.
Everybody is talking about corruption. Who are the corrupt people
So Anas is now a prosecutor and a judge?
stop this lazy journalism. Anas get inside ur room and be in a quiet mood. ask yourself if you have ever taken bribe before. if you have, then ask yourself again 'am I being fair to humanity?' stop blackmailing people.
And you think you are innocent? It is only Ghana that a cr1m1nal like will be walking free. Ur time is near.
Ghana is rotten so much to the core of corruption. How people in position of trust can ignore all the warnings and cautions of their master and delve into corruption is something that's beyond understanding... Only radical punishment can minimise the deep-seated corrupt attitude in us... I expect the president to crack the whip, because based on what he said in the 2012 presidential debate, his integrity is on the line...