{"id":669505,"date":"2019-08-01T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T13:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Ibrahim Mahama <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nSupreme Court yesterday ruled that the grant of three mining leases in favour\nof Exton Cubic, the company belonging to Ibrahim Mahama, younger brother of\nformer President John Mahama, is null,"},"modified":"2019-08-01T13:03:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T13:03:14","slug":"supreme-court-cancels-ibrahim-bauxite-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/01\/supreme-court-cancels-ibrahim-bauxite-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Cancels Ibrahim Bauxite Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Ibrahim Mahama <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nSupreme Court yesterday ruled that the grant of three mining leases in favour<br \/>\nof Exton Cubic, the company belonging to Ibrahim Mahama, younger brother of<br \/>\nformer President John Mahama, is null, void and of no effect.<\/p>\n<p>It<br \/>\nhas, therefore, cancelled the mining lease granted Ibrahim to mine bauxite in<br \/>\nthe Nyinahini Forest in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region,<br \/>\nthereby bringing finality to the protracted matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main Lease<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nlease was granted Ibrahim\u2019s company on December 29, 2016, when his brother, then<br \/>\nPresident, was only a week to exit power after losing the 2016 presidential<br \/>\nelection.<\/p>\n<p>In<br \/>\nthe heat of the transition, Dr. Gideon Boako, an Economic Advisor at the Office<br \/>\nof Vice-President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, said that the lease granted by the<br \/>\nMahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration to Ibrahim\u2019s<br \/>\ncompany was 58% of Ghana\u2019s entire bauxite reserves.<\/p>\n<p>A<br \/>\nfive-member panel, comprising Justices Julius Ansah, Jones Victor Dotse, K. Anin<br \/>\nYeboah, Samuel K. Marful-Saw and Prof. Emmanuel Nii Ashie Kotey, held that in<br \/>\naccordance with Article 257, all minerals belong to the people of Ghana and the<br \/>\nPresident holds same in trust for the people and that is why Article 268 enjoins<br \/>\nall mining leases to obtain parliamentary ratification.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AG\u2019s Writ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\ndecision of the court stemmed out of an application by the Office of the<br \/>\nAttorney-General (A-G) challenging the decision of an Accra High Court which<br \/>\ngranted a certiorari that quashed the decision of then Minister of Lands and<br \/>\nNatural Resources, John Peter Amewu, thereby revoking the three mining leases.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\ncourt, presided over by Justice Kweku Ackah Boafo, had held that the minister<br \/>\nexceeded his powers when he \u2018clothed\u2019 himself with jurisdiction to determine<br \/>\nthe legality or otherwise of the lease.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\ncourt, however, ruled that Exton Cubic Group Limited did not have a mining<br \/>\nright as the leases were not acquired through the proper means as required by<br \/>\nlaw.<\/p>\n<p>It<br \/>\nwas this decision that the state\u2019s writ deposed to by Deputy A-G, Godfred<br \/>\nYeboah Dame, was challenging at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\naverred that the High Court judge committed an error of law when he held that<br \/>\nthe company did not have a valid mining lease yet went ahead to quash the minister\u2019s<br \/>\nrevocation letter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SC Decision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nSupreme Court, in its decision, which was read by Justice Marful-Saw, held that<br \/>\nthe grant of the three (3) mining leases in favour of Exton Cubic was in<br \/>\nviolation of the Constitution and section 12 of the Minerals and Mining Act (Act<br \/>\n703) and, therefore, declared them invalid, void and of no effect for failure<br \/>\nto comply with mandatory statutory provisions of the Minerals and Mining Act<br \/>\nand Article 268 of the 1992 Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\ncourt also quashed the ruling of Justice Ackah-Boafo which was given last year<br \/>\nin favour of Ibrahim when the High Court held that Mr. Amewu<br \/>\nerred in cancelling Ibrahim\u2019s lease.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court said the High Court judge had no jurisdiction to grant certiorari to protect a non-existent right and warned the lower courts to be careful in issuing orders of certiorari to protect rights which do not exist in law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gibril Abdul Razak<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ibrahim Mahama The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the grant of three mining leases in favour of Exton Cubic, the company belonging to Ibrahim Mahama, younger brother of former President John Mahama, is null, void and of no effect. 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