A private legal practitioner, Akwasi Boamah, has refuted claims suggesting that the former minister of environment, science, technology and innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, is being witch-hunted following his appearance before the Special Prosecutor.
A section of the public is accusing the Office of the Special Prosecutor of using Frimpong-Boateng as a scapegoat after falling out with the government following his leaked report on illegal mining.
In May this year, a leaked 36-page report by Frimpong-Boateng said that high-profile government officials, presidential staffers, security officials and MPs are involved in illegal mining or are interfering in the fight against the problem.
The Special Prosecutor invited Frimpong-Boateng over the leaked report. He is also being investigated as a suspect as the OSP investigates the activities and expenditure of the defunct Inter-Ministerial Committee Against Illegal Mining (IMCIM).
Appearing on Asaase 99.5 Accra’s news analysis show, The Forum, on Saturday (10 June), Boamah said Frimpong-Boateng must account for his stewardship.
“As a suspect, you are invited by an institution to conduct an investigation, ordinarily you are deem to be arrested and you are expected to follow due processes, that is writing your statement among others,” he said.
“By then it appears that on the scale of the report, that is why he is being chased, something like witch-hunting, that is why I have a difficulty,” Boamah said.
“It seems to have coincided, obviously his report suggests that he is coming to equity and if you are coming to equity, you must come with clean hands.”
Watch the full programme in the attached video clip below:
Reporting by Fred Dzakpata in Accra
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