The Majority Leader and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has questioned the motive behind why the former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, delayed submitting his Galamsey report.
According to him, the former chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) had all the opportunities to present his report to the Cabinet of Ghana, but he failed to.
Speaking in an interview with Kwesi Parker-Wilson on Oyerepa Breakfast Time on Thursday, the Suame MP indicated that the fact that the former Minister only decided to file the Galamsey report after he was not reappointed by President Akufo-Addo raises many unanswered questions.
“There are some questions one may ask in terms of the credibility (of the report)… I’m a member of the cabinet, and we set up this committee, and Prof. was its head. The committee was working, and occasionally the cabinet received reports for it.
“But how come this particular report was not presented to cabinet and is only surfacing after Prof. was not retained as a minister?”
“I don’t want to be prejudicial… “But his mandate elapsed in 2020; why was it released after the president had nominated ministers for his second term and Prof. was not part of it?” he questioned in the Twi dialect.
The majority leader, however, urged the requisite state agencies to look into the allegation made by the former science and technology minister in order to get to the bottom of the matter.
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