A presidential staffer and Secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Mr. Charles Cromwell Bissue, has been named as the leading traitor opposing President Akufo-Addo’s fight to eliminate illegal mining in the country.
In a new undercover work of ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye PI organization exposing corruption, which airs on a number of TV stations and Graphic Online today, February 27, 2019, Bissue appears as a facilitator for a company seeking to circumvent laid down processes to be given permission for its mining operations.
Mr. Bissue is captured in a secretly recorded video receiving bundles of cash to facilitate the speedy ‘clearance’ of a mining company in order that it can begin mining as soon as possible.
He was also heard in the video instructing his subordinates over the phone to “fast track” the processing of the company’s documents.
There are security officials, informants and go-betweens who offer to provide the company with information on the movements of a security taskforce against illegal miners.
Also, there are others who offered to provide armed guard for the company’s authorization, actions that are in sharp contrast with the objectives of the very institutions they work with or purport to work for.
The committee is chaired by Prof Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, Minister for Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation.
However, allegations have been rife in recent times of the suspected complicity of some government appointees in facilitating the clandestine operations of illegal mining firms much against the national effort to clean up the space.