{"id":655308,"date":"2019-07-12T14:59:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T14:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Ibrahim Mahama<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Supreme Court has set July 31 to deliver\nits judgement on the Attorney-General\u2019s (A-G) writ challenging the decision of\nan Accra High Court to grant an application of certiorari filed by Exton "},"modified":"2019-07-12T14:59:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T14:59:25","slug":"supreme-court-decides-ibrahims-bauxite-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/12\/supreme-court-decides-ibrahims-bauxite-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Decides Ibrahim\u2019s Bauxite Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Ibrahim Mahama<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court has set July 31 to deliver<br \/>\nits judgement on the Attorney-General\u2019s (A-G) writ challenging the decision of<br \/>\nan Accra High Court to grant an application of certiorari filed by Exton Cubic<br \/>\nGroup Limited over three mining leases it obtained \u2018illegally\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The A-G last year filed the writ insisting that<br \/>\nthe High Court, presided over by Justice Kweku Ackah Boafo, lacked the<br \/>\njurisdiction to \u201cgrant a certiorari to enforce or protect a non-existent<br \/>\nright.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Office of the A-G, the three<br \/>\nmining leases were not properly obtained by the company, owned by former<br \/>\nPresident Mahama\u2019s younger brother and said the High Court should not have<br \/>\ngranted the application for judicial review filed by lawyers of Ibrahim\u2019s<br \/>\ncompany.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judicial<br \/>\nReview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Accra High Court (General Jurisdiction<br \/>\nDivision) on February 8, 2018, granted the application for judicial review<br \/>\nfiled by Exton Cubic that was challenging the decision of then Minister of<br \/>\nLands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, to cancel the mining leases of<br \/>\nthe company by \u201cjust the stroke of a pen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court held that the minister exceeded his<br \/>\npowers when he \u2018clothed\u2019 himself with the jurisdiction to determine the<br \/>\nlegality or otherwise of the lease.<\/p>\n<p>The same court in its ruling held that Exton<br \/>\nCubic did not have a mining right as the leases were not acquired through the<br \/>\nmeans as required by law.<\/p>\n<p>According to the court, going through the<br \/>\nprocesses leading to the signing of the mining lease shows that the lease did<br \/>\nnot comply with the statute; the Minerals and Mining Act 2006 (Act 703).<\/p>\n<p>The court also refused two other reliefs sought<br \/>\nby Exton Cubic including the application for an injunction restraining the<br \/>\nminister from interfering with its (Exton Cubic Ltd\u2019s) rights acquired by<br \/>\nvirtue of the leases, as well as an order of injunction restraining the<br \/>\nminister from granting the rights acquired by the mining leases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A-G\u2019s<br \/>\nChallenge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not satisfied with the decision, the A-G<br \/>\nproceeded to the Supreme Court arguing that the presiding judge committed a<br \/>\n\u201cgrave error\u201d in his reasons advanced in quashing the letter written by the minister<br \/>\nin respect of the supposed Exton Cubic lease.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deputy<br \/>\nA-G\u2019s Argument<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is our respectful submission that the<br \/>\nMinister for Lands and Natural Resources in writing the letter on 4th<br \/>\nSeptember, 2017, was only stating the obvious situation of the purported leases<br \/>\nbeing invalid and of no effect for non-compliance with the law. He did not from<br \/>\nthe wording of his letter, terminate or revoke any lease,\u201d Deputy A-G, Godfred<br \/>\nYeboah Dame pointed out yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The A-G is, therefore, praying for an order<br \/>\nfrom the Supreme Court directed at the High Court to bring its decision to the<br \/>\napex court for it to be quashed.<\/p>\n<p>It says, \u201cThe High Court acted without<br \/>\njurisdiction when it heard and determined the suit of the interested party (Exton<br \/>\nCubic Group Limited) in violation of the mandatorily prescribed \u00a0\u00a0provisions of Section 27 of Act 703.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Response<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lawyer for Exton Cubic, Osafo Buabeng, opposed<br \/>\nthe application saying the law did not expressly give any timeline for parliamentary<br \/>\nratification regarding the issue before the High Court and that there must be an<br \/>\nexisting mining lease before ratification.<\/p>\n<p>He contended that once they had a mining lease, they had a right which ought to be protected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Gibril Abdul Razak<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ibrahim Mahama The Supreme Court has set July 31 to deliver its judgement on the Attorney-General\u2019s (A-G) writ challenging the decision of an Accra High Court to grant an application of certiorari filed by Exton Cubic Group Limited over three mining leases it obtained \u2018illegally\u2019. 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