NDC Director of Elections, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has cautioned the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu and the Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah to stop displaying "concert" over the issue regarding Ibrahim Mahama and his company, Engineers & Planners.
Ibrahim Mahama, brother to former President John Dramani Mahama, together with his company was denied access to the Forest Reserve at Nyinahin to mine bauxite.
The company which was at the area with the equipment to commence operations at the Forest reserve was met with hostility from the residents who prevented the company from operating.
The company's access denial to the Forest Reserve was authorized by the Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah who has asked them to provide documents permitting them to mine bauxite in the Nyinahin forest.
Though the Natural Resources Minister is said to have granted permission to Engineers & Planners, the Regional Minister insists he won't allow the company to carry on with any activity until he sees the documents.
He has therefore seized their equipment.
Responding to the Minister's action, Mr. Ofosu Ampofo warned the government to stop personalizing the issue.
According to him, he feels Mr. Ibrahim Mahama is targeted due to his relation to Ex-President Mahama.
He told sit-in-host Nana Yaw Kesse on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' that the Akufo-Addo government has reduced the issue to attacking the personality of Ibrahim Mahama.
“Ibrahim Mahama is a Ghanaian. He’s an entrepreneur. Everybody knows what he’s done. Can we help him to help other Ghanaians to create jobs?” he questioned.
Mr. Ofosu Ampofo stated emphatically that the denial of access to Engineers & Planners "sends a very wrong signal that the country is drifting away from the principle of good governance . . . Under Nana Akufo-Addo’s government, he has employed more of his family members than any other government in the history of this country."
“It does not lie with Ibrahim Mahama to carry his documents walking from Regional Minister to DCE. It’s not the company’s responsibility to pick up the documents in the armpit and be showcasing it everywhere,” he added.
To him, the government is playing "concert" with the issue because he doesn't see the need in asking the company to provide documents in this technological age where there are various avenues to obtain the documents without Mr. Mahama personally going to the Regional Minister's office to show his work permit.
“What they’re doing is needless? It’s concert that the two Ministers are displaying. And I’m surprised that, in this era and age of ICT, someone will stand somewhere and say that unless I see the documents myself . . . I am beginning to feel strongly that the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources is being relegated to the background gradually,” he stressed.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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if you leave in a glass house you dont throw stones. ehhh ofosu ampofo.na waaooo
So mr Osofu Ampofo, just because Ibrahim Mahama is a Ghanaian all the rules must be bent for him to do whatever fancies his whims? he had that during the NDC government simply because he is the ex-President's brother. The NDC government bent and broke all the rules to suit his fancies. He was given many sole sourced contracts that he failed to fulfil but pocketed the money. He bankrupted the Merchant Bank. NO MORE. Ibrahim mahama MUST play by the rules. The ***barred word*** Farm kingdom is over. He even had military bodyguards at a time.
MR MAN WHY CAN'T YOU FINE SOMETHING TO DO BY YOURSELF AND STOP THAT YOUR LAZINESS ATTITUDE TO SITTING IDLE AND SUPPORTING SOMEONE WHO IS EVEN NOT YOUR FAMILY MEMBER. YOU FOR KNOW THAT THAT L-O-OTED AMOUNT YOU KEPT CAN NOT TAKE YOU TO ANYWHERE. THAT ***barred word*** AND THEIR FAMILY ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR FAMILIES BUT NOT AMPOFO FAMILY. BECAUSE OF YOUR ***barred word*** THAT IS WHY TEMA EAST DIDN'T VOTE FOR YOU. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT NANA ADDO IS WAITING FOR? IF THIS CORRUPT PEOPLE HAS BEING JAILED ALL THIS ***barred word*** WOULD HAVE BEING STOP.
Sir the only concert going on here is you and your like walking free after l.o.oting Ghana dry. Don't blame you but the weak Nana Addo and his NPP govt.Its a shame that after all the talk about fighting corruption,Nana Addo's incorruptibility,the NPP is now engaging in scratch my back,I scratch yours. Unbelievable revelations of corrupt deals under the ndc yet nothing being done.Newest being 66 million dollars ch.op cho.p at SSNIT. Mr. Ampofo continue to enjoy your loot and keep rubbing it into our faces.One day another junior Jesus will arise to right the wrongs of these political cr.o.oks.
If these are the kinds of people who run the church and government, we shouldnt expect anything sensible from them. How can such ethnocentric character be an elder in the church? Ofosu Ampofo is such an 1diot!!!
The lack of conscience amongst the ruling class in Ghana is really nauseating! Isn't it wrong for the president's brother to be awarded a mining contract for 20 plus years? Particularly a key resource such as bauxite? I am NDC and we all complained when chief Kufour took a private bank loan to buy hotel de waa waa so what makes Ibrahim's any different? Or because Mahama was president all of Ghana's resources must go to his brother? Were other companies involved in the bidding and on what basis was the contract awarded to Ibrahim? In advanced democracies such as the US, President Trump cannot even award an oil mining contract to his sons or the Trump corporation. We need ethics office within our governance systems that will deal with issues such as this that are clearly issues of conflict of interest. NDC shouldn't defend this!
Ahh Massa are you not even ashamed to talk of this. When a whole countries mineral resource has been given to an individual who happens to be the Presidents brother? I cant believe this..... Mr Ampofo are you also not Ghanaian? Why was it not given to you? You make me sick. The only ones who are performing in a concert are the NDC guys like you who instead of talking about the rot that happened under the leadership of Mahama do not see nothing wrong with it. I never knew you were that st000p1d.
And they call this comedians ministers. These are the so called competent people? hahahaaaa, I lough enter Borrowmia lies.
Akromfo NDCfo
Listen to that lunatic talk from someone who through corrupt deals has amassed wealth to be able to build fuel stations across Ghana. Who is more concert than you when you knew you had lost election, yet you claimed to be in a comfortable lead.