The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hansol Mining Company Limited, has petitioned the Military High Command and the Police Administration to institute investigations into an attack on the company’s mining site and offices by some military personnel and operatives of National Security. The CEO, said the recent attack on the company at Batia in the Asante-Akyem District in the Ashanti Region was illegal and in clear contravention of various laws of the country. He said the invasion of the mines and taking away valuable items such as gold and mobile phones were in violation of the constitutional right to privacy and corporate liberty of Ghanaian businesses. The petition alleged that on Friday, May 3, 2013, a team of military personnel and National Security operatives, led by one John Jabella, a military officer, invaded the premises of the company, claiming that they were conducting an operation. According to the security personnel, the exercise was conducted under the authority and oversight of one Lt Col Pabby of the 4th Battalion of Infantry (4BN) Military Barracks and one Mr Bimpong of the Ashanti Region Office of the National Security. The petition said there appeared not to be any justifiable reason why the mining site and offices of the company were invaded. It said even more worrying was the manner in which the military and the operatives visited so much terror and fear on the residents and neighbours in the community. The worst of the so-called operation, it said, was that one person became unconscious and was hospitalised. The grievous aspect of the exercise, it said, was that all the requests made by the company for the items to be returned had been turned down. The CEO appealed to the Military High Command and the Police Administration to ensure that all the items which were seized were returned. “By copies of this letter, we are also bringing this development to the attention of the Attorney General’s Department, the Regional Minister, the head of the Bureau of National Investigations and the leadership of the various security institutions,” it said. Mr Antwi-Boasiako, who visited the offices of the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday, lamented that he had been a target of the military for sometime now and that from January, 2013 to date the military had attacked his mines more than 20 times. He said in all instances it had made away with his vehicles, gold, money and other items and appealed to the government to call the security agencies to order, since he was not into any illegal mining. “All my concessions were legally acquired from the Minerals Commission and those Chinese working under me are legal migrants with working permits,” he said.