The Special Prosecutor, Mr Martin Amidu has declined to investigate the missing excavators issue and the alleged thievery and corruption in the fight against illegal mining (galamsey).
According to Mr Amidu, the Criminal Investigations Division (CID) of the Ghana Police Service had already commenced investigations into the matters.
The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Kwabena Frimpong Boateng had earlier sent a complaint to the police on the issue.
But on February 18, 20120, the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability through its Executive Director, Mr Mensah Thompson sent a petition to the Special Investigator asking him to investigate the alleged thievery and corruption in the fight against illegal mining.
In a response to the group dated February 24, 2020, and copied to the Ghana Police, Mr Amidu explained that “it would not have been in the public interest of safeguarding the public purse for his Office to refer to its Investigation Division the same matters for investigation concurrently even if your complaint fell within the mandate of this Office.”
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