There they are expected to be confronted by Cassius directors in a last-ditch push for negotiations ahead of legal action in London later this year.
Neither was in their current role at the time of the incidents,but human rights groups and village leaders are also now pushing for a fresh inquiry and compensation over the deaths of dozens of miners.
Cassius has taken the Shaanxi mining company to a local court,but the case has been bogged down in delays and claims of corruption. Shaanxi has denied the allegations.
Cassius now claims that the Ghanaian government had knowledge of Shaanxi’s trespassing and theft,attempted to redraw boundaries in favour of the Chinese miner and failed to act on allegations of demonstrated corruption at senior levels of the government.
The Ghanaian government has yet to answer questions about its role in supporting Shaanxi’s mining which involved the alleged theft of tens of millions of dollars of gold by the Chinese state-linked mine and the collapse of Cassius’ operations in Ghana.
Jinapor became a minister in March 2021,two years after miners were allegedly gassed to stop them from taking gold at the site and four years after Shaanxi’s alleged theft from Cassius was first detected. Ayisi joined the Minerals Commission in September 2021. Both incidents have taken place under the government of President Nana Akufo-Addo. Jinapor and Ayisi will be spruiking Ghan’s mining investment opportunities at Perth’s Pan Pacific Hotel this week.