Reign Of Terror: Galamsey Kingpin Prof. Frimpong Boateng Orders Arrest of Miners President

Information gathered by Whatsup News suggests that the embattled Minister of Environment Science Technology and Innovation Prof. Frimpong-Boateng reportedly caused the arrest of the President of the Concerned Small Scale Miners, Michael Kwadwo Peprah for a post on Facebook.

Apparently, Mr. Peprah had posted an announcement on his Facebook page that the miners’ group will be holding a press conference to discuss the glaring absence of issues of small scale mining in the recently-launched 2020 campaign manifesto of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).

According to report from sources within the mining group, the arresting officers were from the Cyber Crime Unit of the Ghana Police Service who claimed Kwadwo Peprah was being charged for causing “fear and panic” to Professor Frimpong, who has been cited in several fraudulent illegal mining operations in the country.

The embattled Kwadwo Peprah was promptly whisked from his home and from Kumasi to Accra for detention.

The opposition NDC has strongly condemned the act of arrest which they described as a despotic behaviour of the Akufo Addo administration.

“The NDC condemns this shameful act, which is part of a desperate scheme by the oppressive and despotic Akufo Addo-government to intimidate, harass and silence critical voices ahead of the 2020 general elections,” Sammy Gyamfi, the NDC National Communications Officer wrote in a statement. 

“We are reliably informed, that as we speak, Michael Kwadwo Peprah has not been given access to his lawyers by the Police. We humbly entreat the media and CSOs to follow this matter and give it the attention it deserves.”

The mysterious circumstances of the arrest is still unravelling.

Apparently, insiders think that Prof. Boateng, who is also the disgraced Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), did not want the proposed press conference of the concerned miners’ group to discuss the massive complicity of government and party officials of the governing NPP in the illicit operations of illegal gold mining in Ghana.

Prof. Boateng, has been caught on secret tapes recently, scheming with party officials how to fraudulently distribute confiscated mining excavators to party top executives so they could engage in the illicit mining operations to generate revenues for the NPP.