The Minority in Parliament has announced its plans to initiate steps to ensure that a bi-partisan probe is conducted into the Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng galamsey report.
According to Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, the Minority Leader, the move is aimed at working in the interest of Ghanaians on this issue.
The report authored by Prof. Frimpong-Boateng, former chairman of the now-defunct Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), accuses some government officials of interfering in his work or engaging in galamsey.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called for both Parliament and the Office of the Special Prosecutor to initiate a public enquiry into Professor Frimpong-Boateng's damning galamsey report which implicates some officials of the governing New Patriotic Party.
Speaking to the media, Dr Ato Forson said the Minority supports the call for the probe.
“This House has been urged by a vast majority of our citizens to institute a bi-partisan probe into this serious matter. We, the Minority support this call and shall take steps accordingly to trigger the necessary processes for an independent probe into this matter. So in the coming days, don't be surprised if you hear the NDC Minority starting a process to constitute an independent probe into Prof. Frimpong-Boateng's report,” he added.
The report was submitted to the Chief of Staff in 2021 but was subsequently leaked into the public domain in April 2023.
Several persons indicted in the report have rejected the allegations.
