Watch moment Sammy Gyamfi, ‘pressed the neck’ of NPP’s Tia Mahama on live TV

The Member of Parliament for Walewale, Dr Abdul Kabiru Tiah Mahama, faced a tough time on the January 4, 2025, edition of JoyNews Newfile, where he was challenged over claims made by members of his party about the operations of the Ghana Gold Board, GoldBod.

During a panel discussion, the MP defended claims that under Sammy Gyamfi, the Chief Executive Officer of GoldBod, Bawa-Rock Company Limited was appointed as the sole buyer of gold in the country. He also said Bawa-Rock was incorporated in 2025 to farm and carry out other activities, but not to trade in gold.

Sammy Gyamfi, who was also on the panel, refuted these claims, showing that Bawa-Rock was incorporated in 2015 and had licences to trade in gold since 2016. He also presented documents from the Registrar General’s Department showing the company changed its name from Bawa-Rock Company Limited to Bawa-Rock Limited in 2023.

Despite the evidence, the Walewale MP maintained that there was wrongdoing in the company’s current role. He argued that the company’s objectives were changed to include gold trading only in 2025, the year he claimed the name was changed.

“Bawa-Rock Company Limited is not the same as Bawa-Rock Limited. Bawa-Rock Company Limited has been changed to Bawa-Rock in 2025, and the object of incorporation. And I’m surprised that my brother Sammy Gyamfi did not give us the initial object of incorporation, because the initial object has been changed to now include the matters we are talking about in 2025.

“Because the parent company, as it was established in 2015, clearly has in its object the things that they were doing, farming… mining, but it did not have as its core mandate being an aggregator and being a trader, gold trading as its major object of incorporation,” he said.

The host, Samson Lardy, a private legal practitioner, interjected, saying that changing a company’s name does not mean its objectives were changed, calling it “basic company law” and challenging the MP to prove his claim.

The MP also appeared to misread the documents presented by Sammy Gyamfi, confusing the date 2025 as the date the company’s name was changed, which Lardy pointed out.

Tiah Mahama, however, stuck to his claim that the company’s objectives were altered to include gold trading when the name changed, despite evidence showing it had been trading gold since 2016. This drew a sharp response from Gyamfi.

“Bawa-Rock was registered on 14th January 2015. Bawa-Rock then changed its name from Bawa-Rock Limited to Bawa-Rock Company Limited on the 20th day of November, 2023. Correct? This is it?

“A change of name is not the same as a change of objects. Please don’t embarrass yourself. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah goes to do a presser, runs away from NewsFile, sends you, and you come and embarrass yourself about things you don’t know,” Gyamfi said…CONTINUE MORE READING>>>