The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has slammed the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for positing that President Akufo-Addo has shown no commitment in the fight against galamsey.
The NPP Deputy Director of Communications, Ernest Kofi Owusu Bempah in a statement indicated that the position taken by the NDC is “like the pot calling the kettle black because their track record in the galamsey menace is horrible.”
“We are talking about a party that shamelessly launched the Youth in Small Scale Mining programme in the Eastern Region, which apparently opened the floodgate for galamsey.”
“Of course, the galamsey situation got so bad under Mahama in 2015, such that he had to hang his shame on the people of Kyebi, tagging the place as the headquarters of Galamsay in the country.”
“For those that may have missed this; the erstwhile Mahama government issued an infinite resident permit to Aisha Huang.”
“Precisely on 28th March 2015, Aisha Huang was given an indefinite resident permit to live here in perpetuity and to engage in her illegal activities. This happened under the Mahama administration. Meanwhile, she was unsuccessful in getting the permit during the President Kufour era.”
“So you see, any dastardly attempt by the NDC to rationalize the political economy of galamsay must be roundedly condemned. It is beyond dispute that under John Mahama-led government, the national record of the deleterious impact of galamsay left a lot to be desired. It was simply unprecedented.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
