Former Environment Minister, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has fired back at the response on the need for him to “hard evidence” in relation to the allegations in his report on illegal mining activities in the country.
The former minister and celebrated heart surgeon indicated that he had done his part as Chairman of a Committee whose mandate was to compile a comprehensive report on the operations of illegal miners in the country.
He was responding to the statement issued by AG’s office.
The office had described the report by the former minister as empty and did not have evidence to prosecute the persons named in it.
But in his response, Prof. Frimpong-Boateng said“What does he mean by hard evidence? I mean as somebody who has written a report what evidence do you expect from me apart from words, documents, videos, pictures?
“I am not an investigative agent, that is not my job. I was a chairman of a committee and I wrote a report, so you [as an Attorney General] have to go round and see whether what I am saying is true or otherwise,” he said during an interview on Accra-based TV3.
“We have regional Ministers, DCEs, MPs, police personnel, Customs and Forestry Commission personnel scattered across Ghana, are they not seeing these things? If you go there, you’ll get your evidence.”
By: Rashid Obodai Provencal/Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
