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Spencer Wan Blog of Saturday, 15 February 2025
Source: Eric Afatsao
The information gathered from reports alleged that former Chief of Staff Frema Opare’s children Nana Osei-Opare and Maata Osei Opare own multiple mining companies.
According to the reports, Maata Osei Opare is the director of multiple mining companies her brother, Nana Osei-Opare owns.
Satellite images show that Cape North’s concession owned by Frema Opare’s children has been heavily mined in a way that has polluted the Ankobra River, the banks of the Tano where Tera Nayo’s concession is located are no different.
Frema Opare’s son Nana Osei-Opare owns two other mining companies called Optec Limited and Mech Resources Limited. Maataa Opare his sister, and another person, Nana Yaa Serwaa Opare, serve as co-directors with him in the companies.
The information gathered suggests Optec Limited is an offshoot of an information technology company where Mr Osei-Opare is the CEO/Founder and Maata Opare is the legal manager.
The two together have four companies and have applied for 23 mining and prospecting licenses, five leases have been granted from these applications.
Meanwhile, the Vice-president IMANI Africa, Bright Simons has also shared his thoughts about Maata Osei Opare who is the Head of Legal at Fidelity Bank, he stated, “There is an investigation that this same Head of Legal at Fidelity Bank is a Director of a company doing mining in a way that is polluting some rivers in Central Region. As usual, the Minerals Commission & its leadership will ignore the investigation. No accountability whatsoever”.
Bright Simons further raised the concern of a conflict of interest with Maata Osei Opare serving on the board of ECG and as Fidelity Bank’s Head of Legal.
He wrote, “Regular readers of this page would recall that whilst investigating the crazy forex losses at ECG with ACEP, I got sued by Fidelity Bank. I deemed this to be an attempt to block further scrutiny of the juicy deals between Fidelity & ECG.
The head of legal for Fidelity, who was the daughter of Ghana’s then Presidential Chief of Staff, was also on the Board of ECG. So, whilst reviewing contracts with ECG at Fidelity, she was also perfectly placed to get them approved at ECG. Anyway, typical of Ghana, what seemed to me like a blatant conflict was just ignored”, he added.
