Charles Bissue, the former secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), has been labeled as wanted by the Office of the Special Prosecutor.
This declaration is the result of Mr. Bissue’s failure to appear in response to a request from the Special Prosecutor to do so and respond to questions about the ongoing investigation into alleged corruption within the disbanded IMCIM.
Mr. Bissue recently attempted to stop the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) from bringing charges against him by filing a writ at the High Court in Accra. The Special Prosecutor’s ongoing investigation into allegations of corruption involving Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, the Chairman of the IMCIM, prompted this legal action.
Mr. Bissue stated in the writ that he had received a letter from the Office of the Special Prosecutor stating that they believed him to be a necessary person for the investigation and wanted to speak with him.
But he did not accept the Special Prosecutor’s invitation.
After learning that the OSP had finished its inquiries into the allegations of corruption made against Mr. Bissue by Anas and Tiger Eye P.I. in its Half-Yearly Report, Mr. Bissue started legal action by releasing a Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim against the OSP and two other parties in December 2022.
After learning that the OSP had finished its inquiries into the allegations of corruption made against Mr. Bissue by Anas and Tiger Eye P.I. in its Half-Yearly Report, Mr. Bissue started legal action by releasing a Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim against the OSP and two other parties in December 2022.
Mr. Bissue revised the writ in January 2023 and then filed an injunction to stop the OSP from looking into and prosecuting him any further. It was authorized for the Office of the Special Prosecutor to submit a statement of case opposing the Motion.
However, Charles Bissue has not taken any action on the injunction application despite multiple adjournments in the hearings.
