Amidu and CID confront Anas

General News of Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Source: dailyguidenetwork.com

2019-07-23

The CID report exonerating Charles O. Bissue, who was secretary of the Interministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), in Anas and his exhibitor Tiger Eye PI galamsey, denied the special prosecutor, Martin Amidu.

Amidu said his office was investigating the case and writing to the CID to end a parallel investigation, but the police refused and gave his report. Despite this, he said he was continuing his investigation, adding "let's see who will stop me".

CID report

According to the IDC report, Mr. Bissue, a presidential staff member who stepped aside to launch after the documentary Anas-Tiger Eye PI, revealed no wrongdoing.

The documentary of Anas had stated that the secretary was involved in dubious agreements to facilitate the processes of a mining company called ORR Resource Enterprise, but the law firm Ampofo, Oppong & Associates, representing Mr. Bissue, said yesterday that the CID 's report did not disclose any wrongdoing committed against their client, insisting that Mr. Bissue was not found guilty of any wrongdoing. any offense according to the report.

Amidu's reaction

Mr. Amidu entered the arena saying that it was the Special Prosecutor's Office that was supposed to investigate the issue, not the police, saying, "I told you that I'm not sure about it. wrote to the Director General, CID, that this was not the case. its jurisdiction. "

"We opened an investigation, but before I could invite the suspect, I read a publication in a newspaper in which Charles Bissue had stated that the CID was investigating his case and that the plaintiff was to go there and to give his testimony. I therefore wrote to the Director General of the CID to tell him that the corruption offenses had been forwarded to the Special Prosecutor's Office. We have been petitioned; we indicated that we would open investigations. There should be no duplicity in our efforts, so it should stop it, "he told Citi FM in Accra.

CID response

He added that the head of the CID had replied stating that she had been instructed by the Minister of the Environment, president of this organization (IMCIM) and the Ministry of the Interior, to conduct an investigation. and proceed in this way, adding: "I wrote very strongly and then I started the investigations. "

He stated that he took the testimony of Mr. Bissue and all those involved in the documentary, including the complainant, and indicated that a video was involved but that he had not viewed it. personally because he was not the investigator, adding, "I do not know what was written to the investigators and the record has not reached yet. "

Knotted stitches

"There are some thorny things that have to be done before the file is presented to us, because the complainant has made a statement. Mr. Anas AremeyawAnas sent us a few days ago a letter telling him that he wanted to be a witness and I told him that I could not guarantee the conditions in which he wanted to be a witness, but that he could make a written statement. He came for the declaration forms. He must submit them. When all this is done – because the complainant and the suspects have all testified, the material that is the video is there, I do not know what it says – [and] When we have followed this process, we will decide whether or not it is a bribery offense. "

No jurisdiction

Mr. Amidu added, "So the case is with us. I told the CID that they did not have jurisdiction. I wrote to the Minister of the Interior; I copied Jubilee House saying that we can not conduct an investigation simultaneously. You want to set up an office to investigate corruption or when it suits you, you send it to the police. We are studying the question. When the role is presented, we will decide whether to answer or not. "

He attributed political motives to his work by stating, "People choose to interfere in my corruption investigations when they think that it does not suit them, but that we must do professional work – impartially. I was brought here to do a job and that's what I'm going to do. "