Accra, Dec 23, GNA- Adamus Australia shall continue to use and trust the court process to ventilate all its grievances and will stand by the Court orders.
They have also urged all the stakeholders, including the government, to respect the rule of law in the interest of the good administration of justice and in the interest of Adamus Ghana, its workers and the hosting communities.
“We take this opportunity to emphasize once again that Adamus Australia never sold, and neither did it transfer its 90 per cent shares in Adamus Ghana to Nguvu Mining Limited. It is, therefore, in the interest of investment in Ghana and particularly in the mining sector that this matter be thoroughly and fairly investigated to understand how the ownership of the 90 per cent shares suddenly changed from Adamus Australia to Nguvu Mining Limited, for justice to prevail.
This was in a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra, following series court issues between them and their opponents.
The statement said the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources on the 12th of January 2024 asked Juliet Osei-Wusu Esq, the chairman of the IMC to call for a meeting for him to meet with them.
It said the Minister initially gave a time of 1100 hours that day but later changed the time and finally did not have the meeting though the invitees had waited all day for him.
Again, on the 16th of January 2024, Angela List wrote to and sought the intervention of the Attorney General of Ghana whose office gave an opinion on the 22nd of January 2024, to Nguvu Mining Ltd to pave the way for the continued shipping of gold produced by Adamus Ghana, in disregard to the pendency of an injunction application.
The Ministry and the chairman were later served with a copy of the 19th February 2024 ruling with strict time lines to exclude Nguvu Mining and Adamus Ghana representatives from the IMC, where they failed to file names of their appointees by the 1st March 2024 and for the IMC to hold its first meeting on or before the 8th of March 2024.
“David Abini sent out notices for the meeting to be held on the 7th of March 2024, the chairman and the Ministry were informed, no objection had been raised by either of them, but as usual, the chairman acting under the instructions of the Minister did not attend the meeting at the time the membership of the IMC had been reduced to three.
“It is therefore incredulous for the Ministry to feign ignorance as to the existence of the IMC and how the efforts of the IMC have been continually stifled by Angela List and her Nguvu Mining.
“Again, we find it prejudicial for the Ministry in its release to be stating that the ownership of Adamus Ghana is vested in Nguvu Mining with full knowledge that the ownership of the company is the very subject matter of the dispute”.
The called on the Ministry to be fair in its dealings, to ensure that the law took its rightful direction in the on-going legal tussle.
The accused the Ministry of choosing to put out its press release though it was well informed that Nguvu Mining Ltd on the 10th of April 2024 filed a notice to withdraw its appeal against the 27th July 2023 injunction orders of the High Court, and have also, on the 6th of June 2024,
withdrawn its application for stay of execution of the injunction orders setting up the IMC, filed on the 26th of January 2024.
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