This is NOT how board renewal is done in good companies - pure and simple.
I want to know who the cowardly "group of shareholders" are, the ones who did this, and who are now hiding behind their anonymity.
Do they have the guts to announce themselves?
There should have been a shareholder meeting called to discuss BGS going forward, and to discuss board renewal, with everyone there, open and honest, and a plan developed for the short term, with agreement.
Who is actually running this company - who are the purported shareholder power-brokers? I don't see too many shareholders with a massive percentage holding, except for GAS, and if they weren't involved in this, then BGS is in more trouble than we realize.
I wanted James McKay to stay as chairman. He is a good man, who did a good job.
Yes, we need a permanent CEO, and this should have been resolved some time ago.
Swaby is Swaby, she did a good job, should have always been bought in on a very strict time frame of max 6 months with no renewal. I thank her for sorting out what she did, a job well done. She should have been replaced quite some time ago by a Chief Financial Officer.
So somebody had dropped the ball of these two positions, but I'm not prepared to point the blame.
I've previously said, there are good technical people at Kodal, one in particular if you look him up has been a former CEO of mining companies in Africa, who would have been a suitable candidate for CEO if approached, but I'm not sure if he was. And there are others.
Now all we have is uncertainty, and I'm not sure what the Malian government, and the new minister is going to think of this company.
She is already on our case, wanting to send 3 of her staff to inspect our new ground tenement applications, and perhaps was not too happy that one of these tenements was proposed to have a new road through it, where it currently holds a Malian village.
Don't forget, those villagers are voters, and she is a new minister. My take has always been that BGS will be granted only one (1) of the tenement applications.
So why wasn't ALL the shareholders informed by the "gang of shareholder assassins" of the demands they were putting to the current board, and what their alternative plan is - IF they have one?
If they DON'T, then this company is going broke, and the share price down to 3 cents, and/or eventually into administration, where someone like Kodal will buy it for a song. What a Bargain eh !!!
The question now is not who are the new board members, but whether BGS will actually get a new board at all, or whether it will go into administration. If it does go into administration, then there will be groups bidding for the project at 2 or 3 or 4 cents.
The board were clearly angry at being read an ultimatum by a group of "shadow" shareholders, and I don't blame the board for this.
O'Brien was probably not contactable.
The next announcement will probably be that O'Brien has also resigned, though I am not sure who is left to make the announcement, because the secretary quit as well. Obviously the secretary was also upset.
I'd like to know who the psychotic group of shareholders actually are, and why they did this.
This mess is created by (some) shareholders, and only they are too blame.
They should therefore have the guts to present themselves to ALL other shareholders, openly and honestly, so they can be made accountable. It's too easy to hide, and cowardly.
These are my opinions only.
Gw
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