General News of Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2019-04-10
Charles Bissue
A Deputy Attorney General has said embattled presidential staffer fingered in galamsey bribery saga by Anas Aremeyaw Anas, was not sponsored by government for the UK Town Hall Meeting.
Godfred Yeboah Dame said Charles Bissue was in the UK and at the event on his own accord and not representing government in any capacity.
”The programme was open to the public, and even some white persons were in attendance, so if any Ghanaian citizen around wants to attend, so be it,” he said.
He told Evans Mensah on Joy FM’s Newsnight programme Tuesday that, the steps taken by government to deal with the former presidential staffer who has stepped-aside, is “public knowledge.”
“Mr. Charles Bissue’s issue indeed is being investigated by two independent institutions of the state i.e. the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and the Office of the Special Prosecutor,” he said.
Mr Bissue, then Secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) was indicted in an undercover documentary by Anas for accepting cash gifts to allow an unlicensed mining company to operate.
In a letter last month, he argued his innocence of all the allegations of extortion in the ‘Galamsey Fraud’ documentary.
