Prof. Kwesi Aning, the Director, Faculty of Academic Affairs & Research, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre has poked gaping holes into the defense of Charles Bissue former head of the inter-ministerial committee on illegal Mining IMCIM on a bribe he took in a tiger eye investigation.
The Prof said on Joy fms news-file “The shear audacity of Charles Bissue talking back at the people of Ghana is amazing. Is he a party treasurer to be receiving donations on behalf of the party?” he asked.
This was in reaction to the alabi by Charles Bissue that the money he was seen taken from the tiger eye team was money sent to him by Chairman Wuntumi, the party chairman of the NPP in the Ashanti.
Meanwhile Tiger eye in a press statement stated emphatically that their agents do not work for the NPP party.
“Mr. Charles Bissue claims persons within NPP recorded the videos which expose his bribe-taking moves and sold them to Tiger Eye, and that, those monies were donated by the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP popularly known as Wontumi for a party activity. That’s completely false. For the records, no agent of Tiger Eye works with or for the NPP, and, Tiger Eye has a time-tested procedure for employing its agents, who are usually highly trained and skilled in investigating the underworld. The conversations that ensued before Mr. Bissue took the bribes in our investigative piece are a matter of public record. Those conversations had nothing to do with any party activity which Mr Bissue is struggling very hard, albeit unsuccessfully, to interpolate into the whole narrative. Tiger Eye agents do not deliver party donations. Our agent, from whom Mr Charles Bissue took the bribes to facilitate the illegal mining activities, is available and will always avail himself to bear testimony at any forum properly constituted for that purpose. The names being bandied about by Mr. Charles Bissue are a figment of his imagination” said the Chief executive of Tiger eye PI Anas Aremeyaw Anas
See below a copy of Tiger eye statement
GALAMSEY FRAUD EXPOSÉ: REFUTING CLAIMS OF MR CHARLES BISSUE
- Tiger Eye P. I has taken note of a series of lies and calumnies put out by the embattled secretary to the then Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Mr Charles Bissue, in his desperate attempt to defend his misconduct as captured in the documentary dubbed ‘Galamsey Fraud Part 1’ that was published in February 2019. The latest of his lies which have animated responses from Tiger Eye are contained in his press release dated 6 October 2022.
- Tiger Eye’s position, conduct and approach to all investigations are based on truth, facts and audio-visual evidence. Tiger Eye affirms and maintains its investigations and conclusions in the Galamsey Fraud documentary about Mr. Charles Bissue and other staff at the dissolved IMCIM. Any claims or allegations to the contrary are false and without merit. Mr. Charles Bissue engaged in bribery and corruption and Tiger Eye uncovered this in the form of audio-visual evidence when undercover journalists posed as owners of an abandoned mining company.
- Allegations by Mr. Bissue that agents of Tiger Eye P.I solicited monies from him to drop the investigative piece is merely an afterthought and a figment of his imagination. It is part of the recent mantra by persons caught in undercover investigations to say it was published to disgrace them after they failed to pay monies. The old mantra was ‘entrapment’. None of these persons filmed engaged in bribery and corruption has ever been able to prove such allegations nor won any Court case confirming such fake claims. It defies logic and exposes the incoherence in Mr Charles Bissue’s narrative, that, Tiger Eye would demand bribes to drop a story it had advertised long before.
- Tiger Eye set out to expose heavyweights who dabbled in the illicit galamsey trade on the back of our firm conviction that nobody should be allowed to profit from the devastations of our environment and to augment the President, Nana Akuffo-Addo’s commitment to fighting the menace.
- When Tiger Eye received a tip-off from persons who had witnessed the first-hand sabotage from officials who were kept in charge of redeeming our environment from pillage by greedy individuals and established prima facie, we set out to investigate the claims through a sting operation, popularly known as the “Anas principle”.
- In the course of our investigations, investigators busted Charles Bissue who took bribes on two occasions to allow our mining company to undertake illegal mining in defiance of the approved regime for regulating mining activities.
- Subsequently, Tiger Eye petitioned the Office of the Special Prosecutor with all tapes and recordings as irrefutable proofs of official complicity in the galamsey menace with Charles Bissue as the arrowhead of same. The OSP announced an investigation into the complaint, and since called witnesses, amongst other processes.
- While investigations were ongoing under the OSP, we noticed a parallel investigation (an unwelcomed intrusion) was opened by the Tiwaah Addo Danquah-led CID on the back of a so-called complaint from the Chairman of the IMCIM, Prof. Frimpong Boateng, which generated enormous public opprobrium.
- Tiger Eye, sensing a fishy move had been designed to undermine the investigations of the OSP, took a decision not to collaborate with the CID since the same would have amounted to duplication of effort and a waste of precious resources, especially so when we suspected the whole CID intrusion was a smokescreen. Therefore, the so-called CID report which Mr. Bissue always hurriedly likes to bask in had no inputs from Tiger Eye who were the sole authors of the Galamsey Fraud investigations, and so, Tiger Eye considers the said report as a white-washing antic with no credibility.
- Mr. Charles Bissue claims persons within NPP recorded the videos which expose his bribe-taking moves and sold them to Tiger Eye, and that, those monies were donated by the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP popularly known as Wontumi for a party activity. That’s completely false. For the records, no agent of Tiger Eye works with or for the NPP, and, Tiger Eye has a time-tested procedure for employing its agents, who are usually highly trained and skilled in investigating the underworld. The conversations that ensued before Mr. Bissue took the bribes in our investigative piece are a matter of public record. Those conversations had nothing to do with any party activity which Mr Bissue is struggling very hard, albeit unsuccessfully, to interpolate into the whole narrative. Tiger Eye agents do not deliver party donations!
- Tiger Eye is not privy to any clearance of Mr. Bissue by either the former Special Prosecutor or the current Special Prosecutor. It is interesting how Mr. Bissue, a suspect of OSP is bravingly claiming OSP has cleared him without the knowledge of the Complainant in the case i.e., Tiger Eye. Since the OSP is still seized with the matter, Tiger Eye is restraining itself from jeopardising the investigations and wouldn’t want to put out too many details. We still patiently await pronouncements from the OSP, especially in the wake of the renewed galamsey struggle.
- Our agent, from whom Mr Charles Bissue took the bribes to facilitate the illegal mining activities, is available and will always avail himself to bear testimony at any forum properly constituted for that purpose. The names being bandied about by Mr. Charles Bissue are a figment of his imagination.
- We urge the public to disregard the wobbly attempts by Mr. Charles Bissue and his collaborators to fend off the damning revelations contained in the Galamsey Fraud exposé, as those attempts are nothing but the kicks of a dying horse. See the link to the Galamsey expose below
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Anas Aremeyaw Anas
Chief Executive officer
Tiger Eye P.I
