Sammy Gyamfi

And surprisingly, it was in the communication department that was fronted.

We saw the CEO himself coming out in two different languages, English and Chi.

communicating to the aggregators and also the licensed buyers.

We saw a stakeholder engagement.

Because they are starting to be corrected.

Yeah.

The dynamics, the range that the CEO gave, is it around 10 a.m.? I stand to agree.

Yeah, 10 a.m. and then 3 p.m., right? Somewhere

Mm-hmm.

Name illegal mining from 2017 [foreign language] Sammy Gyamfi is not a regulator for mining.

Mm-hmm.

[foreign language] regulator for mining or yeah, for gold trading.

Now, Sammy Gyamfi [foreign language] a board member [foreign language] task force as the only license [foreign language] prosecutor.

That is the law.

Meridian Gold Board Act 2000 and... uh, 2025.

I drove through most of the mining areas.

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Lawyers for minority leader Alexander Afenyo Markin have accused Ghana Gold Board Chief Executive Officer Sammy Gyamfi of using procedural tactics to avoid responding to their client's fifty million Ghana cedis defamation suit.

This accusation comes after the High Court in Accra set aside the suit on Wednesday, October 14, ruling that the writ of summons did not sufficiently specify the statement alleged to be defamatory.

In a statement, Mr. Afenyo Markin's legal team questioned why Mr. Gyamfi had allegedly focused on procedural issues instead of filing a defense to the allegation.

They said they were yet to receive a copy of the court ruling as of 4:00 PM on Wednesday and would determine their next step after reviewing it.

The lawyers added that they had instructions from their client to pursue the matter to its logical conclusion.

The dispute followed comments made by Sammy Gyamfi in an interview during which he described Afenyo Markin as an extortionist amid a public debate over the Bank of Ghana's domestic gold purchase program.

The minority leader subsequently sued Sammy Gyamfi and Multimedia Group, seeking fifty million Ghana cedis in damages, a retraction, an apology, and a permanent injunction against further publication of the alleged defamatory statement

[upbeat music] Tonight, did Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo Markin's legal team file a defamation case so incurably defective that it was never meant to be heard, but only to secure a chilling effect while it was pending? That is the whisper in legal circles after the Minority Leader's 15 million cedis defamation suit against Gold Board CEO Sammy Gyamfi was thrown out of court today.

You must endorse the alleged defamatory statements of the defendant on the writ.

So we took the view that failure to comply with that rendered the entire action incompetent, and therefore the court should set it aside.

My name is Kenneth Jesse.

Tonight, one word has outlived a 15 million cedi lawsuit, extortionist.

That is what Gold Board CEO Sammy Gyamfi called Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo Markin on JoyNews' Newsfile in August.

And the Minority Leader sued, demanding 15 million cedis and a gag order to stop anyone from ever repeating it.

Today, the Accra High Court said his case was incurably defective, so flawed it cannot be fixed.

There'll be a two hundred and twenty-two capacity mortuary

Gold Board CEO Sammy Gyamfi says the establishment cost recorded in the twenty twenty-five audited financials were partly made up of legal charges for drawing up the Gold Board Act.

Appearing before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee on Tuesday, October 13, Mr. Jamfi responded to concerns raised by members over the amount spent and their justification.

According to him, a significant portion of the expenditure classified under establishment cost was for consultancy and legal services procured for the drafting and finalization of the Gold Board Act one one four zero, which formally established the board in April twenty twenty-five.