{"id":346790,"date":"2017-08-21T20:18:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T20:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=346790"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:51:20","slug":"ar-minister-accused-of-unlawful-seizure-of-mining-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=346790","title":{"rendered":"A\/R: Minister accused of unlawful seizure of mining trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exton Cubic Group Limited has refuted claims that, the company in collaboration with Ibrahim Mahama, are engaging in illegal mining activities at the Nyinahin\u00a0bauxite concession and were thus run out of the concession.<\/p>\n

The company\u00a0said the seizure of vehicles belonging to Ibrahim Mahama’s Engineers and Planners (E&P), was done unlawfully on the instruction of the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, and the District Chief Executive of the Atwima Mponua District.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wish to state emphatically that the said publications are false and a total misrepresentation of the actual facts of the issue. We wish to state unequivocally that Exton Cubic Group has never engaged in any illegal mining activity in Ghana,\u201d Exton said in a statement<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Exton Cubic Group clarified that the vehicles of one of its sub-contractors, E&P, were impounded along with the \u201cunlawful detention of our officers by the Nyinahin\u00a0Police on the 20th<\/sup> of August 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mining company had engaged Engineers and Planners (E&P), a company owned by Mr. Mahama, to use its equipment to undertake a prospective service.<\/p>\n

Operations at\u00a0Nyanihin lawful<\/strong><\/p>\n

The company stressed that it had legally acquired the Nyinahini Bauxite concession as far back as August 14, 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt came to us as a surprise when without any lawful excuse, the District Chief Executive of Atwima Mponua District Assembly and the Ashanti Regional Minister caused the trucks of the subcontractor to be impounded in the center of the Nyinahin\u00a0township.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter going through all the laid down procedures required by law, Exton Cubic Group Limited was granted a mining lease for the Nyinahin\u00a0Bauxite Deposit by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources on the 29th<\/sup> of December 2016. This mining lease was registered at the lands commission of Ghana on the 9th<\/sup> of January 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company is yet to receive any official communication from the authorities concerned as to why our E&P’s trucks and equipment\u00a0have been impounded.<\/p>\n

Exton Cubic Group\u2019s lawyers are in talks with police in the area over the issue \u201cand it is our hope that the police will release the impounded trucks as soon as possible to forestall any further pecuniary losses to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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