According to legal practitioner Martin Kpebu, the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has been caught off guard by the leaked report on the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM).
Kpebu believes that if the report had not been leaked, it would have been kept hidden like other reports. He is thankful to Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng for writing the report and Kevin Taylor for leaking it, saying that in a democracy, it is important for people to leak reports.
Kpebu alleges that the President was only interested in shielding his appointees and would have treated the report as a normal one. He believes that the report demands a Commission of Inquiry to be set up to investigate the allegations contained in it, and if the President fails to do so, Parliament and the Council of State can do it as stipulated in the 1992 Constitution. Kpebu feels that a Commission of Inquiry will give all persons cited in the report a chance to speak out.
He also thinks that if action is not taken, the matter will die a natural death because the President is not interested in fighting corruption. He concludes by saying that the President has been caught with his tail between his legs and that karma is catching up with him.