Lawyer in private practice and counsel to former President Akufo-Addo, Kow Essuman, has stated that claims by Justina Nelson, the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF), that the Fund’s 2024 audited financial statements have been released to the public as required by the Act that established the fund, are palpably false.
In an interview on Citi TV today, Friday, 19 December 2025, Justina Nelson claimed that the Fund has already released the 2024 report, despite her earlier correspondence stating that the report would be released only if the MIIF board gave her the go-ahead.
To this end, Ms Nelson has refused to comply with a Right To Information (RTI) request submitted to her office by Kow Essuman as far back as September 2025. To date, MIIF has failed to provide Mr. Essuman with the financial statements.
In a post on his Facebook Wall in reaction to the interview granted by Ms Justina Nelson to Citi TV, Mr Essuman noted that Ms Nelson’s claims on national television are regretably untrue.
“I have just listened to an interview on Citi FM in which the current CEO of MIIF categorically stated that the 2024 Audited Financial Statements have been released. Regrettably, that statement is untrue.
“I have been formally requesting the 2024 Audited Financial Statements of the Fund since September. To date, they have not been provided to me. As a result of this continued refusal, I have filed an application for review before the RTI Commission, which is currently pending.
“If, as the MIIF CEO claims, the 2024 Audited Financial Statements have indeed been released, then one must ask: why has the RTI Commission ordered her to respond to my application and to furnish the Commission with a copy of those very statements?” Kow Essuman quizzed.
“By letters dated 11 and 18 December 2025, the RTI Commission formally directed the MIIF CEO to respond to my requests and to submit the 2024 Audited Financial Statements to the Commission. These are matters of record.
“I had no intention of making this issue public. However, I am compelled to do so in light of the false public statements made this evening,” Essuman further stated in his Facebook post.
“Madam CEO, your enabling Act imposes a clear duty of transparency and accountability. You are required to make the Fund’s audited financial statements available to the public. Claiming that the 2024 Audited Financial Statements have been released when they have not is palpably false.
“As a public officer, you owe the public a duty of truthfulness. Compliance with the law is not optional, and public communication must reflect the facts, not a convenient or false narrative,” the learned lawyer pointed out to Ms Nelson in his social media post.
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