Charles Bissue Exposes Former Staff Of Inter- Ministerial Committee On Illegal Mining
A former Secretary for the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Mr. Charles Onuawonto Bissue, has exposed the former staff of the IMCIM], Mr. Francis Owusu.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
A former Secretary for the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Mr. Charles Onuawonto Tissue, has exposed the former staff of the IMCIM], Mr. Francis Owusu.
According to Mr. Bissue who is currently vying for the position of the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), while at the IMCIM, Francis Owusu kept persuading him to acknowledge an invitation from Sir John over some “dealings” related to the operations of the IMCIM.
Despite the persuasions, Mr. Bissue claims he turned down all invitations, and later got Francis Owusu fired because of professional misconduct.
As published on the Minerals Commission’s website, DML Investment Limited secured its prospecting license on 25 February 2019. Its file at the Minerals Commission covering the concession at Tetekaso, Adaagya in the Ashanti Region is PL6/415.
The Anas’ “Galamsey fraud” was released on 27 February 2019, just two days after Francis Owusu and Sir John had secured their license.
Investigations concluded by the Criminal Investigative Report on the allegations of bribery in the Anas expose uncovered the malice of Francis Owusu against Mr. Bissue.
As argued by Mr. Bissue, sections of the tape broadcasted were doctored to get Ghanaians into believing he took a bribe.
According to him, there is no truth in that tape as the money offered was from Chairman Wontumi and was meant for a party event organized by the Western Regional Organiser, Mr. Abdul Ganiyu.
He noted that it was strange Anas’ documentary alleging his involvement in bribery and circumvention of due process with the licensing of miners, came shortly after he had mobilized a team of journalists to assess the devastation caused by some recalcitrant miners in forest reserves across the country.
This, he suspected was a deliberate attempt by his adversaries to silence him and stain his reputation even before his report on the devastation is published.
“I never took a bribe. I was taken down for doing the right thing. That Francis Owusu, who has been named in Sir John’s will …if indeed that document is true, calls be a thorough investigation into the properties that were acquired around 2019. I was hit in 2019 February.
In January 2019 I took about 60 journalists across forest reserves in this country to witness the devastation caused by miners. There is drone footage and all that, just to show Ghanaians the extent of the damage so we put in measures to address it.
“He [Francis Owusu] wanted me to mine in forest reserves. He kept pestering me with invitations from Sir John but I declined. Eventually, I told Prof Frimpong Boateng about his misconduct.
He was mobilizing galamseyers to offer me bribes anytime we lodged at Golden Tulip. He is a beneficiary of DML, the company named in Sir John’s Will. Why did he form a mining company while he was at the IMCIM?” he said on Angel FM.
