Head of the Research Department of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Dr Emmanuel Kwesi Anning has described the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) report on the activities of illegal mining operators in the country as "shoddy work".
The BNI report which surfaced in the media last week citied traditional rulers, politicians and security chiefs for involvement in illegal mining activities across country.
Notable among the persons mentioned were the Okyehene Osagyefuor Amoatia Ofori Panin III, Talensi MP, B.T. Baba and the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF).
All the notable persons or entities cited in the report have denied any involvement in illegal mining activities, discrediting the BNI.
The lawyer for the Okyehene who on Saturday called into Joy FM's news analysis programme Newsfile, vehemently denied claims made in the report and wondered why an intelligence report said to have been put together by the BNI will be reporting perceptions instead of realities.
Speaking on Joy News TV's PM Express on Monday, Dr Anning stated that the BNI report falls short of the requirements of a proper intelligence report.
According to him, any proper intelligence report on illegal mining would include the names of financiers and the beneficiaries of the venture which he described as "not a small scale Ghanaian business but a multi-billion dollar business" which goes deeper than what the BNI sought to portray.
"How can any proper intelligence report fail to follow the money trail?†he wondered.
Dr Anning stated that the report could at best get a pass mark if it were presented to him as a term paper at the KAIPTC.
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