Anas’s Galamsey Fraud - Newsfile on JoyNews (27-7-19)

[Music] you're welcome back this is news final issue most authoritative news analysis platform and here on news file we put Ghana first some of your messages Musa battle in Kumasi says that I suppose those who are calling for the special prosecutor to probe the matter because the explanation so far by the Minister is not adding up this is what I call leadership crisis okay so you have got into an issue we are about to look at wisdom Amano says honestly speaking the Parliament has to be dissolved and the judiciary should ensure past and present ministers of Youth and Sports are prosecuted judiciary doesn't do press squishy okay so is it a money or a mana says I hope the government would not set up an inquiry into the 4.5 million dollars and clear everybody of wrongdoing okay wrongdoing Emanuel Kingsley Basso says that Isaac SEMA is now doing exactly what he was fighting against Kofi mike says Guineans shine your eyes these politicians don't care about us in fact the order of priority are as follows one their stomach to their family three their political parties and for Ghana okay so the curve again Samuel a buaji Jabba says from day one this okey okey okey don't personalize stuff sorry about that I can I can't be a conveyor belt for that message so proceed let me read another one okay so Sally came Sally came sends a message and Sally came says the I group the website said they are a security company checks from the interior ministry showed the group was illegal that makes them a militia group was simple oh really citizen Dennis says good morning to you and your panelists could you mention that an afro barometer report points the fact that that that confidence in the media is waning let him also do that press freedom and the DIA tenure is at its lowest ebb okay you know that statement by Chancellor Cobra Bay is is disputed by many many others we will discuss that matter God willing next week and could you should be here all right so the there was a report this week that said that mr. Ebisu an appointee in the doobly House who was secretary to the inter-ministerial Committee fighting galamsey but you know he resigned that position after the Una's expose that sought to implicate him in that issue and special prosecutor was petitioned somehow the understanding now is that some ministers or the minister in charge of environment or also the interior minister also asked the police to investigate the same matter martin Amadou is so unhappy about it and now the police say the cid say they are investigating didn't find the gentleman to have done any wrong i start with you on this cuckoo why why should i need to be disturbed you see you see the only one allowed by law to investigate matters of collaging not exact but he's the only one who was petitioned by tigereye a key player and this whole matter they did investigations put together a documentary they are in possession of the raw footage and they chose to petition the office of the special prosecutor which is a creature of law and they did this somewhere February 28 1927 February all so it was after that that apparently the Minister for the chairman for inter-ministerial Committee professor from home watching requested the Interior Minister to ask the police to investigate in a letter dated I think March 2nd 2019 at a point in time tiger I were cooperating with the office of the special prosecutor to deal with the issue and indeed as the special prosecutor in service indicated he told the police that I'm seized with this matter and I'm dealing with it so perhaps stop your duplication it isn't as if you have you get state different intelligences in investigating the same matter source and the CID when was talking to mr. Locke was my beef numb one butin you KU SI Lee were investigating them at the same time some of the issues were overlapping so what's the big deal I said well in this case the principal actor that is the investigating body tiger I had declined the offer for them to cooperate okay yes are you saying yeah that tiger I did not submit anything to police absolutely not operate with them up nothing destroyed so what did they do exactly they told the police that we are unable to cooperate with you in this instance because we are already at the office of the special prosecutor and in any case don't forget as a track record of tiger I police collaboration over the years so it isn't as if there was any problem but they said I am principal who said this matter he will not be working on two levels we have sent it to a particular office the office has fortunately accepted the challenge to interrogate the issue so thank you for your interest then the police decides to proceed with their own independent investigations without Tiger ice involvement and that's why they are challenged if you read see and what all this matter is it the police send the I report to the Minister of Interior this is 29th May 1919 there is a full report here and apparently the lawyers for Papa for HSBC wrote the police requesting a report because they thought they are finished so the police in a letter dated july 2019 this is july 2019 sent to their lawyers has business lawyer a home good friend yeah because the letters addressed to him and it is subsequent to this that the public got to know that something is going on the police in their own report make it clear if I can do a see they say the comments the final comments is signed by Isaac cannibal Commissioner of Police Director General Administration this is at the time of compiling this report the chief executive officer of tiger IP Ayanna's a Ramayana x' had failed to report the police to assist in our investigations that's why several are forced to get him to assist failed or declined okay go ahead yeah they are wrong it declined and he told them direct he also has not provided the unedited footage of the documentary to the police moreover the key witness in the case yeah Ben is not available to assist in the investigation to substantiate the claims of bribery against their respective substrates strenuous efforts were made to contact him on his noon telephone number by the Nama was always off the chief executive of taiga API Ana's Ramayana by a telephone indicated that he is not prepared to cooperate with the police because he had filed a petition with the office of the special prosecutor okay and the police themselves admit that in the absence they their conclusion is based on the fact on the evidence available to them - the raw footage and testimony by Tyga I okay so that we assured the publication did not mislead us what did they then say in the absence of taiga I and Ben and all of them coming together what is their conclusion well the one be sent to their like lawyers yes let's see did they say he's glad did they see he's exonerated this is what they make that what is Sentinel yeah I said the investigations primarily relied on the documentary and other sources has already indicated unless I'm a Ramaiya not fail to avail himself to assist in investigations and also provide a copy of the unedited version of the documentary don't forget he had given that today special special prosecutor he said he had already filed a petition with the office of the special prosecutor moreover the key witness in the case the event is not available to assist in the best cases to substantiate the claims of bribery against the respective suspects strenuous efforts were made to contact him on his non telephone ama but to no avail at the conclusion of investigations based on the available evidence none of the suspense was fun to be coverable for any offence so the policia ideal education had a huge deficit very huge one pickup day you didn't have the raw search engine of them yes none of them have been found culpable yes of any offense that's what we are seen see you okay he says with letting fancy my point is this I've been talking to some of the police sources and the eye view so we didn't see we've cleared them we didn't use that we didn't say we were sorry Ted in but look very limited education the last paragraph I read not culpable the end they don't find them couple yeah but I'm saying that they did not have the opportunity to do either find them capable or not covered and that is why that whole exercise was a sheer waste of precious time and space particularly when another statically institution is seized with it and available evidence says miss you and his people have already gone to the office of special prosecutors also the operating so really if I were the CID I would have pulled out and allow one institution to deal with a matter now unfortunately because of the art assistants in proceeding with are enough grounds they've come out of something they didn't put it in the public domain though they put the give it to their lawyer I'm not sure is I don't know if the lawyer put it out I'm not sure okay but we are journalists we intercept everything every day so I don't have a problem with the fact that came out but it has brought up a certain collateral the layer would definitely give it to the clients and it's in the client since ready to publish yes but if you read the full report see there's a part you listen to this this is the section on judge Bishop paragraph 24 is this in a statement on caution suspect as we stated he is a presidential staff and secretary to the International Committee he said he had not received monies as consideration for the discharge of his duties or too soft certain event laid down procedures of the committee neither has he been corrupted in any way he said he had watched a documentary in question and stated emphatically that he never authorized and use it to collect any money on his behalf neither has and you brought him money in concentration for any official work to be carried out he also said I saw in the footage a hunt handing over cash to him but he cannot recollect location I love the part you want me to he said he saw in the footage a hand handing over cash to him but he cannot recollect that occasion I did not know the exact amount he said he he said he did not also see the person's face you only saw her hand which makes it difficult for him to recollect location not to be fed to him is talking about the footage yes yes he however stated that mr. Benn in Shibuya who else will to me had earlier told him that he was sent his personal assistant and you issued to bring him some money to him as his contribution towards an MPP regional program that was held in the western region that he remembers receiving some money from and you sue under the impression that the money was coming from chairman Bernard moussaka and nobody else there are many everybody stinks here my name is Tiger petition the special prosecutor nothing on two people just miss you and a news okay but I realized that the police riding the scoop to bring in some on this so you have a nice sauce space the way just hold on could you want that to come in so I agree with you in the initial analysis and I depart with him in the end when he talks of the special prosecutor he has appearance yeah but let me explain to you why and I think some questions must be raised for all of us to understand cook who has an expression that he uses that sometimes we set up our own fallacy then we invite everybody to come and interrogate that fallacy and we spend a lot of time interrogating something that mean lives are there I suspect that this whole brouhaha is because of so the media narratives now around that mr. Basu has been exonerated Colet and the impression that some have created that it therefore means that the special prosecutors investigation is now redundant redundant that is why we are going through all of this because from the little I have seen this a storm in a teacup I explained to you why taiga did its documentary and proceeded to petition the office of the special prosecutor to investigate two persons on suspected acts that relate to corruption government and I read out a government statement even held as part of a press briefings commented on it and I remember the famous unedited footage became a big brouhaha and government which set up the into Ministerial Committee as an interested party first of all welcomed the work that Tiger are done I think sometimes who edit out all of these things welcomed it and said any effort that is aimed at helping us win this fight against galamsey is welcome and we support it I sent the video over my raw unedited video to cuckoo yes we had a little problem I said that we have welcomed to have commented but it was all Kutta no problem now we proceeded to say that government will have it investigated and of course having it investigated will have to use the raw unedited footage I proceeded to say that there are public state agency and I remember mentioning it may be Yoko it may be police CID whichever is appropriate agency government will have it investigated using the Royal editor footage later the story was that I said people shall bring content to the raw unedited footage but put that aside now why should government be interested in having it investigated because governor set up an inter-ministerial committee to do a job we have seen on television an allegation and a narrative that suggest that the secretary and perhaps some other persons may be involved in undermining the whole effort it scares us so the inter-ministerial committee - professor from pom watching wrote - Polly CID never mind the office of special prosecutor investigation that let's look into this matter and tell us what we must look and you would see from the details that they were looking at even about nine people some of the top brass of persons who associated with the work not just mr. bliss you knew by then I think had on his own said that he was stepping aside so that he won't interfere with the hue so professor bottom will be their complainant to the police and indeed was on behalf of the inter-ministerial committee he directly through the Minister of Interior yes and so we notice that when the response was coming it came through the Ministry of the Interior and none of it was put in the public domain so the Ministry of the Interior is the complainant to them no no no no matter no no I mean okay the IMC Act is the one that routed through the Ministry of injury which is a member of the committee okay who the police now listen look into this and tell us what we must know for example either some other persons who must be asked to step aside okay can this fights and today if you look at the topic you put there the actual topic we put this and what what next for the fight against okay so what you advertise to us area yeah what's what next for the fight against the LMC okay okay this is a question there's a question than the IMC I also saw CID Class B see you in a mask golem safe fraud what is a Medusa beef no the earlier one that was I think Sandow still in there yes and I'm seeing that that is a very valid question about what next what do you do with this who I am see I and other things it's in that light that I am see I through its chairman and router through the interior ministry as the police to investigate the police investigated nine people as quickly suggesting the special prosecutors investigating to the police investigated a larger ambit and advised the committee which advice has not been put up in the public domain but the police came with a conclusion I'm coming I'll come to it but I'm saying the one with what appears to be our deficit don't worry okay I'll come to it they investigated nine people and advised the committee which advice has not been put out in a public domain okay go who has intercepted a copy a few presence of copies the lawyer of mist Ebisu writes to the police which is right that he wants to know the outcome of that investigation the police did not furnish him with a copy of it to the best of my knowledge yeah did not furnish him with a copy of it they extracted the extract really cute yes this material just about him and gave him a report that we had a difficulty in conducting this investigation because the person who did the investigation told us that he will not cooperate with us because they are reported to OSP so we had a difficulty and based on that difficulty at the conclusion of the investigations based on the available evidence none of even though the nine persons that we looked at was found to be culpable for in your face this is where I disagree or I departed quickly on the interpretation of this and I'll just explain if you indulge me you a lawyer when somebody is discharged by the court doesn't mean it's been acquitted they say none found copper boo I'm coming when somebody's discharged by the court it's not acquitted he's not acquitted they have said that based on what they had and didn't have they cannot find him culpable why you expect them to say that they have found him covered no they should have stopped the investigation well no they will proceed and advise and therefore the possible - as far as good question oh no no that's a good question those don't invest its depth prime the prime you know passing in the whole matter yes decline no problem no product line no problem but tells you that I have already petitioned Stuckey no problem let's keep we know has been giving cost money nobody was to investigate corruption no problem and that the uncut roll video so we'll give any of that so shouldn't the police say right back to the Minister of Interior and say we are unable to proceed on the basis of this and again much in Amadou tells us that he's doing it which is stopped every day so truly they do that so the the remit of the police and investigation I think is important okay to tell the inter-ministerial committee what it ought to know so that it would show what right now should the whole fight stop - so more persons be moved out of the office or what that's the realm and within that remit they advise the committee which report has not been put up by the committee bear that in mind there by which we know is a different process that they have not based on the evidence available to them they have not found mr. X culpable it is without prejudice to what the office the special prosecutor a few questions so did for example did the police in the engagement with a special prosecutor say it specialist Keita's top investigation I don't think they did did the police request anyone from cooperating with that I don't think they did did the police stop anyone from appearing before the special prosecutor new can anybody let's assume the special prosecutor finishes his investigation and says that he has found bit based on the evidence he has he has found somebody culpable can anybody go to court and say that my defenses that have been excavated by the police but but is it is this is this meat is it healthy I am seized with the full facts both parties can corporate all the parties are cooperating with me let me do that job and the parties some of them say we will not cooperate you the most important of them say we will not cooperate with you and you proceed what exercise of just the police examples we asked to do a job and tell the committee something that's all they did somebody asks them did you find anything on me they said that I can't share with you the full report but I did not have enough material to have something on you that has nothing to do it was a special prosecutor and today the special prosecutor finds somebody culpable that person cannot say that what do you think what do you think like that he's biased abided by the by by by the law you have lists and yet both of us are of less cool we're supposed to do this tourist prosecution anyways and if they were doing investigations to a prosecution which is what did my understanding did they put this before the Attorney General which is why I put it in context as am understanding of what the committee asked the police to do was we have seen this thing it's cases tell us something what should we know how should we handle a people what should we do and they did this we can advise that committee which reports the committee know the police have not come to put in a public demand the committee has received a brief and has proceeded to decide for example on some of the other persons were located here so for me it's a storm Latika because it doesn't affect the work of this but suffers well the special prosecutor things differently well that is fine we can respect it doesn't like tocut it's all of us I'm sure you have some issues okay so so so Randy from what you've you gotten to know about all of these things it doesn't look tidy do but I don't know from what you also know generally is this what the police does they do an investigation and and issues you sort of a bill of health is that what they do well I guess you could you better appreciate the work the police that's but you know Untied is being used here and I think that is the most appropriate thing I think is even embarrassing you know especially the the exposure of the back-and-forth between two institutional heads people were supposed to be working and posit you know to deal with issues of fraud and crime and all that now look at the heart of this is the basis for the setting up of the officers special prosecutor it was to take away were told there was a take away the issues of political persecution of bias and all that so that when it comes to political passes and politically exposed bases we believe that look the officers special prosecutor is a better place for the determination of those things to take away the issues of bias that is what we're told because at the time that we were setting up the office the issues of all other state agencies having the competencies and the capacity to do the things we want the special prosecutor to do when I think I was raised as one look having a political things anything of a situation where look we might not admit it but the trust in the police especially the CID it's not up there it's not up there it would be honest with ourselves but you need to also be careful the stretcher Pro skeleton cause recently and some charges were thrown away from him clearly showing him that look you don't have exclusive you know jurisdiction over every matter yes those tax issues and all of that they told him you know if you get away yes even though he's gone back and rephrased them in a way that can guarantee what he's going to do so are we are we not are we not also supposed to be careful not to give the impression that one of the special prosecutor is in every matter about crushing has to be dead that's not a fun of making when I raised the issue of this politically exposed persons and politicians I'm just saying not a rational for setting up that office because we raised the same issue that look there are institutions that are vested with the authority to do these issues you want the specialist could have to do it what is new about that what is the need for a new bureaucracy one of the key things is to take out the issue of parties and perceptions and all that you are in a something so look is even in the interest of government especially the current time it that when you have somebody who's one of you that you do not let some of these institutions you know even deal with the issues that's the point I'm making you know it will be more appropriate if you allow the same institution that you see that look because you don't want people to say Paul it's got and with our political persecution the opposite of that is also political protection so what goes for political persecution who goes for political protection so the same way you'll be accused of persecuting somebody on partisan basis you could also be accused of protecting somebody on partisan basis and we need to watch these things now I am NOT a lawyer but the wedding of the conclusion of the police for me is worrying and you see there's also a certain deficit in in how the police described an ASUS corporation incorporation assignee field but this is that the fact you know is that the fact it pulls on us in a very bad light the police is telling a story which is not what you know I don't know if subsequently they they put the fact out claimed that they spoke to him on that contract no I'm just saying that this is not official document that he give out what they said about a NASA he declared yes I'm saying that the sources subsequent statement negates what they are said yes it could be someone who is not paying attention to the grammar as in the weight field and decline like you are III appreciate your yo-yo every fits your dismay but the truth of the matter is that it doesn't tell the full picture and look at words look at how the contents of this document were published interpreted have published you know that there's an exoneration what about this constitutes an exoneration don't you try matter is that they could not because that the principle witnesses that looked I have petitioned a body that I believe exclude with a jurisdiction to do with the matter I have submitted a rough footages to them and it appears that the police itself was not interested in asking for those pieces of evidence from the special prosecutor because it is not on record that they reroute to a special prosecutor to see that look share with let's share this with us let me do that meanwhile we expect these institutions to be talking together and coordinate you're not working across purposes okay awareness is most of do you really think something that since they were no able to get a mass and they couldn't get the footage and the full complement they should have also declined and written back to the minister and say we are sorry Martin Amedeo is doing it and they should also have less on like that could you tell us all that even if they proceeded they should not have a conclusion on the basis of the lack of dues yes I mean that's exactly the view I take so you can either decline and not continue with the investigation report to the minister that these are the challenges we have if you are inclined to proceed you consider their investigations inconclusive right and that yeah we defer to the office of special prosecutor because the tiger IP is saying that we are not cooperating because we are already before the OSB that will have been a midterm thank you of going about it you know so honestly something we have to decide do we want to fight corruption or not I am getting worried that we have in too many cases of the [Laughter] [Laughter] australian maritime Authority boss who is no grha we are told he was cleared nobody sees the report you know we can continue this way we can do better at transparency at sunshine at ensuring that we follow due process and we public confidence so I on this matter agree with the office of special prosecutor that what transpired was just do please duplicitous it was superfluous it was an obstruction totally needless and that he should be allowed to do his work who says it was a waste of time and perhaps and with the resources resources III agree totally I agree totally the office of special prosecutor should be allowed to do its work and this pension by government to rush to Claire rush to Clarence before when the public don't even believe in being suspicious of some political stuff in all of this I don't know how could you think about it also because I recall when you were you were quizzing the president before he became president and he promising to use the amass principle that the president would have preferred that the police had listened to the voice and because if a mass is collaborating effectively with the OSB would have preferred that so that all of this doesn't come up yeah but you can use that as principle and more there's nothing I mean to the best of my understanding the osp's work on this particular matter is not a stopped okay and I think that he's actually still proceeding if i if i read some of things he's written he's proceeding and knowing this OSB he's not swayed or moved or apprehended by the enquiry that the police did and advise the committee about okay that's why i see that it says Tommy Latika five stones anybody none of them can say that his defenses exculpation by the police okay thank you thank you very much let me bring this your attention as we we get out of this place so get ready for the Ghana World Music Festival 2019 a weekend of incredible global music at the fantasy dome on Saturday the 3rd and Sunday the 4th of August 2019 artists from Ghana Jamaica USA South Africa and Canada you can grab an le ticket now at fifty Ghana Cedis regular to Thursday 80 Ghana Cedis VIP 150 Ghana Cedis VVIP and 450 Ghana Cedis at these outlets Pinkberry you know essentials my cell phone repairs null including and Joy FM starting Monday so is from Monday you can get your tickets thank you you know you're asking if is good that the sports ministers budget about 79% right for the OPCON we are we are we out of time my guests up in Abdul Malik Baku Baku editor-in-chief of the new crusading guide 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Published: Sat Jul 27 2019