{"id":698899,"date":"2019-09-04T21:22:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/04\/govt-probes-illegal-rosewood-export-at-tema-port\/"},"modified":"2019-09-04T21:22:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:22:01","slug":"govt-probes-illegal-rosewood-export-at-tema-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/04\/govt-probes-illegal-rosewood-export-at-tema-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t Probes Illegal Rosewood Export At Tema Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Government has commenced investigations into alleged Illegal trade and export of Rosewood from Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>A seven-member Committee was inaugurated by the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, on August 26, 2019, to among other things, probe allegation of corruption in Rosewood trade in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Its inauguration followed a BBC report that entitled: Ban-boozled: How Corruption And Collusion Fuel Illegal Rosewood Trade In Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, September 4, 2019, the Committee led by its Chairman and Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu-Bio, stormed the Tema Port on a fact-finding mission into the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The visit was also aimed at strengthening security at the ports.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the fact-finding mission, members of the Committee held a closed door meeting with officials of the Timber Industry Development Division (TIDD) of the Forestry Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee has five working weeks to submit it\u2019s report to Government.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Committee include, Francis Manu Adabor-Chairman, Parliamentary Select Committee on Lands and Forestry;  Ena. K. Blege -Representative of Ghana Customs Division,  Member; William Bandor- Representative, Forest Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG) \u2013 Member; Jeremiah  Seidu- Representative of Civil Society Member; Adjei Yeboah- Representative of the Private Sector \u2013 Member;  Joseph osiakwan,   -Representative of MLNR, Member Secretary<\/p>\n<p>Over the five weeks duration, the Committee would examine all anomalies in respect of Rosewood salvage permits, transportation and export trade.<\/p>\n<p>It would also probe if Rosewood is still being traded in spite of the ban imposed by the sector Minister in March 2019. <\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Melvin Tarlue<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has commenced investigations into alleged Illegal trade and export of Rosewood from Ghana. A seven-member Committee was inaugurated by the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, on August 26, 2019, to among other things, probe allegation of corruption in Rosewood trade in Ghana. Its inauguration followed a BBC report that entitled: Ban-boozled: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":698903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gov&#039;t Probes Illegal Rosewood Export At Tema Port - 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\/2019\/09\/04\/govt-probes-illegal-rosewood-export-at-tema-port\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Gov&#039;t Probes Illegal Rosewood Export At Tema Port - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Government has commenced investigations into alleged Illegal trade and export of Rosewood from Ghana. 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