{"id":415012,"date":"2017-09-05T21:36:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/05\/npp-wants-to-cripple-mahamas-family-aquinas-quansah\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T21:36:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:36:14","slug":"npp-wants-to-cripple-mahamas-family-aquinas-quansah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/05\/npp-wants-to-cripple-mahamas-family-aquinas-quansah\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP wants to cripple Mahama\u2019s family \u2013 Aquinas Quansah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday,  5 September 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-09-05<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/19698923.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ibrahim Mahama Ks\" title=\"Ibrahim Mahama Ks\" width=\"295\" height=\"283\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ibrahim Mahama<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385127052\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385127052\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1504647374_168_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Former Central Regional Minister Aquinas Tawiah Quansah is angry with government\u2019s decision to revoke the license, describing it as attempt to \u201ccripple the Mahama family\u201d According to him, the decision was a political witch-hunting and a calculated move by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to \u201cat all cost destroy legitimate\u201d businesses being done by Ibrahim Mahama, a brother of the immediate past President of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources John Peter Amewu on Monday, announced the revocation of the license granted Exton Cubic Limited for exploration at Nyinahin, declaring the license as invalid and of no effect. But Aquinas Tawiah Quansah says the minister goofed on that score.<\/p>\n<p>He suspects the minister was pushed by a higher authority to beat a retreat on his earlier conviction to grant access to Exton Cubic Limited into the forest of Nyinahin to mine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHas the Minister not early on approved of the exploration and urged his colleague minister in the Ashanti Region to release equipment owned by Exton Cubic, equipment which had been seized by Simon Osei-Mensah, so what has he seen now? This is a political decision and an agenda by the NPP to cripple John Mahama, thinking that if they don\u2019t close Ibrahim Mahama\u2019s businesses down, he will support his brother\u2019s bid, if John so declares\u201d livid former minister explained to host of Onua Fm morning show Bright Kwesi Asempa.<\/p>\n<p>John Peter Amewu had cited infractions of the mining law in the contract, but said the company has every right under the law to correct all anomalies and reapply.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mr. Aquinas Quansah  who is also a former Fisheries Minister alleged that \u201cIf it were Chairman Wontumi who found himself in this situation, he would be told to go and correct the wrongs and come back, why can\u2019t same thing be done for Ibrahim Mahama\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He therefore dared \u201cthe government and his assigns\u2026 to go and close down the cement plant belonging to Ibrahim Mahama\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can do their best, but they will not succeed; that young man does a genuine business and he is a Ghanaian who happens to give employment to fellow Ghanaians, whatever the NPP is doing today, they must know someone will be in their position tomorrow,\u201d he underscored.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 33 updated by: 45 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Tuesday, 5 September 2017 Source: 3news.com 2017-09-05 Ibrahim Mahama &#13; Former Central Regional Minister Aquinas Tawiah Quansah is angry with government\u2019s decision to revoke the license, describing it as attempt to \u201ccripple the Mahama family\u201d According to him, the decision was a political witch-hunting and a calculated move by the governing New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":415013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NPP wants to cripple Mahama\u2019s family \u2013 Aquinas Quansah - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/05\/npp-wants-to-cripple-mahamas-family-aquinas-quansah\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"NPP wants to cripple Mahama\u2019s family \u2013 Aquinas Quansah - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Tuesday, 5 September 2017 Source: 3news.com 2017-09-05 Ibrahim Mahama &#013; 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