Galamsey Fraud: Charles Bissue Allegations “Frivolous and incompetent” – Western Youth

A group of over hundred youths in the  Western Region has held a press conference Tuesday  at Agona Nkwanta in the Ahanta West Constituency in the Western Region  and appealed to the President not to accept the  resignation letter of Mr Charles Bissue, the Secretary to the Inter- Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining ( IMCIM )  but rather call him back to office with immediate effect to continue his good works which have seen a positive changes in our river bodies especially the Ankobra river in the Western Region.

The non partisan group , Western Youth AssociatIon  ( WYA)  believes the allegations labelled against Mr Bissue by Anas Aremeyaw Anas in the galamsey fraud video is frivolous and incompetent to indict him as corrupt.

The group further demand that Anas Aremeyaw Anas should make available the  full unedited video to the Presidency for investigation to be carried out immediately other than that the President should direct Mr Bissue to go back to the office awaiting investigation.

The group bemoaned the unwillingness of  Anas Aremeyaw Anas to provide the full unedited video to the Presidency which to them is weird and therefore appealled to the President, His Excellency Nana Addo Darkwa Akufo Addo not to accept the hardworking and incorruptible Mr Charles Onuawonto Bissue’s resignation  since he Mr Anas Aremeyaw Anas has already petitioned the Special Prosecutor.

The leaders of the group Mr James Ackah and Mr Kweku Tawiah believe Charles Bissue continuous stay in office will not impede  the Special Prosecutor’s investigation .

The group also alleged that some disgruntled illegal miners whose nefarious activities in the Mining sector have been stopped by the hardworking Secretary , Mr Bissue,resulting in cleaning our  water bodies were behind this Anas Aremeyaw Anas video,but thank God in the said video Mr Charles Bissue did not demand a BRIBE from the Tiger PI team.

Mr Ackah said ” is it not weird that that the ten thousands Ghana cedis given to Mr Charles Bissue after he agreed to fasten the process legally for the said ORR RESOURCES who is already on site but has only  two months left for the licence to expire  be a BRIBE”.

Mr Tawiah , a member of the group in an interview with the media said he has on many platforms including Utv, Tv 3 etc , heard Mr Bissue saying the Committee will make available to the existing Small Scale miners the time lost through the ban if their licence expired and therefore for the ORR RESOURCES , whose licence will expire  in two months time to benefit from this IMCIM’s magnanimity is not something corruptible.

He also said from the video , he sees nothing corrupt on the part of Mr Bissue since he did not charge or demand bribe from the Tiger PI member..

He continued that if Mr Bissue had something fishy to hide or wanted to circumvent the process  he would not have asked EPA to intervene and hence call on the President to treat this video which Anas was in haste  to dedicate to his partner the late Ahmed Suale with the contempt that it deserves for Charles Bissue is INNOCENT.