Founder of Patriotic Ghana Kwesi Korang has asked President Akufo-Addo to instruct his family and friends to stop engaging in illegal mining popularly, known as galamsey.
Speaking on Frontline on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm he said there several saboteurs from within circles of the President who are making the fight against galamsey difficult.
He told host Kwabena Agyapong that ”his [President] family, friends, cronies and party supporters should stop the galamsey. When the President ordered Ghanaians to stop mining, they did. But his family, friends, cronies and party supporters were mining, and they still do”.
He said some of them are even fronting for illegal miners and representing as legal counsel.
When asked if the President should resign for failing the galamsey fight since he put his president on the line, he said, the President should be given the chance to deal with the galamsey issue once and for all.
He said the President has admitted the fight did not go well in the first term and so, let us give him another opportunity to deliver.
Meanwhile, President Akufo-Addo says he is committed to fighting illegal ‘galamsey’ in the country.
According to him, he will expend his capacity and power to bring the risk associated with it to an end in his second term.
At a courtesy call on him at the Jubilee House by Okyenhene Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin and the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Council on Friday, 23 April 2021, the president observed: “We’ve seen what has happened to River Birim, Ankobrah and other major water bodies”, promising: “I’ll put in a lot of efforts in the galamsey fight for Ghanaians to know that I’m serious about the fight so that we can bequeath to the next generation the gold, water and other resources we inherited from our forefathers”.
“I intend to do everything within my power in this second term to bring this galamsey menace to a conclusion in Ghana,” he added.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com
