“Until the Lands and Natural Resources Minister expressly attaches a covering letter on the dossier of documents permitting Exton Cubic Group Limited to work in the Ashanti region, I am not releasing the impounded trucks to them,” the Ashanti Regional Minister told Kasapa FM Tuesday.
Following the seizure of trucks belonging to Ibrahim Mahama’s E&P, which was undertaking “preparatory works at the Nyinahini bauxite concession, Exton Cubic Group said its legal team is engaging the police over the issue adding “…it is our hope that the police will release the impounded trucks as soon as possible to forestall any further pecuniary losses to us.”
Its statement released Tuesday on the matter said”
“It came to us as a surprise when without any lawful excuse, the District Chief Executive of Atwima Mponua District Assembly and the Ashanti Regional Minister caused the trucks of the subcontractor to be impounded in the center of the Nyinahini township.
“After going through all the laid down procedures required by law, Exton Cubic Group Limited was granted a mining lease for the Nyinahini Bauxite Deposit by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources on the 29th of December 2016. This mining lease was registered at the lands commission of Ghana on the 9th of January 2017,”
But in an interview with the Ashanti Regional Minister on Kasapa FM, Mr. Simon Osei Mensah said he has an obligation to protect his enclave, hence he would not yield in to pressure by the company, if the right thing is not done.
He told host, “I don’t know any other company apart from those three which has been given permit to work that I am privy to. Why didn’t they copy me and the Atwima Mponua DCE in the said documents?
Explaining why he caused the trucks to be impounded, Mr. Osei Mensah said: “I’ve met with the Lands and Natural Resources Minister and he told me that only three companies are permitted to work in the Ashanti region. He mentioned the companies as follows, Anglogold Ashanti, Asanko Gold, and Owere Mines. These are the names of companies that he said are permitted to work in the Ashanti region. So if there is any other he has to communicate to me properly.”
Source: kasapafmonline.com
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osei yeeee you can even swallow the trucks one by one. and also know that you cant compare yourself with him. very funny
simple
Even with the loud public noise about the so-called fight against illegal mining, there's some underground, underhand dealings amoung those supposedly campioning the fight in the public eye. God save Akufo Addo's government, God save Ghana.
That is all.
Is it not the same bauxite thing which came out and Ibrahim mahama came and said he doesn't know or have anything like that, so what has happened or change
simple ahu)))yaaaa who God bless no one curse,,,Ibrahim and Mahama are blessed by God and no one can touch them
Regional Minister you can chew them. remember what goes up surely comes down. see right now what your NPP has started engaging into.
Mr. minister be careful,you are there to protect the people and the natural resources but not any indidividual
Fire burn, DRAMANI MAHAMA,IBRAHIM MAHAMA,and NYIANHINHENE
I SAY IN AUTHORITY THAT NANA NYIANHINHENE IS PURE NDC MAN EVERYONE IN NYIANHIN TOWNSHIP KNOWS WHAT AM TALKING ABOUT.HE COLLECTED HUGE SOME OF MONEY FROM IBRAHIM MAHAMA THAT IS WHY HE'S ANGRY WITH THE DCE FOR NOT ALLOWING THE MACHINES TO ENTER THE RESERVED FOREST WE THE YOUTH WILL RESISTS ANY MOVEMENT OF THAT COMPANY TO ENTER THE FOREST, WE ARE FULLY SUPPORT THE REGIONAL MINISTER AND THE DCE FOR PROTECTING OUR RESOURCES, VERY GREEDY KING EVER WITNESS , HE'S SO STRESS SINCE NDC LOST THE ELECTION.