Tiger Eye PI has reiterated that its investigations into illegal mining which implicated the former secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Charles Bissue, was carried out on “truth, facts and audio-evidence”.
The rebuttal came in a statement released Friday, October 7th 2022 on the back of consistent denials of wrongdoing by Mr Bissue.
“Tiger Eye’s position, conduct and approach to all investigations are based on truth, facts and audio-visual evidence. Tiger Eye affirms and maintains its investigations and conclusion on the Galamsey Fraud documentary about Mr. Charles Bissue and other staff at the dissolved IMCIM. Any claims or allegations to the contrary are false and without merit,” the statement said.
“Mr. Charles Bissue engaged in bribery and corruption and Tiger Eye uncovered this in the form of audio-visual evidence when undercover journalists posed as owners of an abandoned mining company,”
Anas and his team also denied allegations that they solicited for money from Bissue to sweep the documentary under the rug.
“Allegations by Mr. Bissue that agents of Tiger Eye P.I solicited monies from him to drop the investigative piece as merely an afterthought and a figment of his imagination. It is part of the recent mantra by persons caught in undercover investigations to say it was published to disgrace them after they failed to pay monies. The old mantra was ‘entrapment’.
“None of these persons filmed engaged in bribery and corruption has ever been able to prove such allegations nor won any Court case confirming such fake claims. It defies logic and exposes the incoherence in Mr. Charles Bissue’s narrative, that, Tiger Eye would demand bribes to drop a story it had advertised long before.
“Tiger Eye set out to expose heavyweights who dabbled in the illicit galamsey trade on the back of our firm conviction that nobody should be allowed to profit from the devastation of our environment and to augment the President, Nana Akufo-Addo’s commitment to fighting the menace,” the statement added.
Mr Bissue all along denied any wrongdoing despite the findings of the Anas documentary.
In 2019, he was cleared of all charges of corruption by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service.
In the meantime, galamsey remains as strong as ever, destroying water bodies and farms all across the mining regions of the country.
Source: theGhanaianVoice.Com