Dr Dominic Akuritinga Ayine is the Attorney General and Minister of Justice
The Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice has said that it did not receive any case docket from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) regarding Akonta Mining Company Limited until September 2025, even though investigations had begun three years earlier.
According to citinewsroom.com, this disclosure was made in a formal response to a Right to Information (RTI) request filed by a private legal practitioner, Jonathan Owusu Asare.
The response, signed by the Ministry’s Information Officer, Lydia Attoh, outlines the timeline of events surrounding the controversial case.
In the statement, the ministry said the CID opened investigations into Akonta Mining in October 2022 after petitions were submitted by Ing Ken Ashigbey and lawyer Martin Kpebu, who raised concerns about alleged illegal mining activities within the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve.
However, the Attorney General’s office noted that it could not confirm exactly when the CID completed its investigations.
On the specific question of when the docket was handed over, the ministry stated that the CID presented the file to the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice “on or about the 15th of September 2025.”
The response further clarified that no docket relating to Akonta Mining was received between 2022 and 2024, despite the investigations being active during that period.
“This office did not receive a docket in respect of Akonta Mining within the stipulated time frame,” citinewsroom.com quoted the minister as saying.
The RTI disclosure comes amid political controversy after Minister of State for Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, had earlier accused the former New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration of failing to act on what he claimed was a completed CID investigation.
During media interviews, Kwakye Ofosu alleged that the CID had submitted its report to then-Attorney General Godfred Dame, but no action was taken.
He stated that the inaction amounted to either incompetence or deliberate shielding of politically-exposed persons.
The Attorney General’s official response now provides a clear timeline, contradicting those claims and confirming that the docket was only received in September 2025.
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