The Director of Communications for the Bawumia campaign, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of undermining the government’s efforts to combat illegal small-scale mining, known as “galamsey.”
According to him, the NDC has been an enabler of the galamsey menace. He alleged that while the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government was actively fighting galamsey, the NDC used the issue as a political tool to campaign against the ruling party.
In a Facebook post, Aboagye accused the NDC of promising galamsey operators protection in exchange for votes, making the government’s efforts to end the practice even more challenging.
“It has become evidently clear that, one of the key enablers of the Galamsey menace in Ghana is the NDC. Clearly, they make the country’s efforts to end this menace a difficult one, when they continue to go into Galamsey sites to encourage the people to commit these criminalities.”
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“When they continue to assure them to vote for them so they will come to government to protect them and allow them to continue the galamsey, it makes it difficult.”
Aboagye urged Ghanaians to vote against the NDC, calling them “dishonest and insincere” with no clear plan to address the galamsey crisis.
“The sad part of this is how they come to the public to call our government and accuse the government of inability to end this menace, and then they rush to the galamsey sites to encourage them not to stop galamsey. Truly, we have challenges and problems as a country, but it’s becoming increasingly obvious that one of Ghana’s biggest problems, is the NDC. Unfortunately, we have a democracy and can’t do anything other than manage them.”
“Vote against the NDC, they are key enablers of Galamsey, they are dishonest and insincere and have no clear plan to deal with this menace other than assure the people of allowing them to even engage more in this illegality.”
By: Ekow Annan/newsalertgh.com
