General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has described the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as a ‘shareholder in galamsey activities’.
According to Nketia, the President has failed to solve the galamsey menace because he and his party are immensely benefiting from it.
He said the government needs to get back to the drawing board and re-strategise on how to fight galamsey, beginning with arresting the top party officials engaged in the menace.
“The government is not serious about fighting galamsey. If it was serious, he will start from his own people who are engaged in galamsey,” Asiedu Nketiah said in an interview with Accra Fm.
“Today, galamsey is a big-time business. People buy excavators and the government is aware of where it is sent. The government knows the owners but does not do anything to them but use the gun in arresting the unemployed village man who has heard that if he works in a galamsey pit he can earn money. Are you fighting galamsey? You are not,” he added.
He said the President is well aware of his officials who are engaging in galamsey but cannot touch them because he also benefits.
“He is a shareholder in galamsey activities. Anas expose caught the one put in charge of Galamstop taskforce meant to clamp down on their activities that he was receiving monies and directing people on how to go about galamsey without getting caught.
“It was like a scheme that as we have come, let us capture the commanding height of the economy. So if some people are able to amass wealth by galamsey, let us go and deceive Ghanaians that we are going cancel and put a ban on it. While the ban is in force, we will be reorganizing by putting NPP members there and before we lift the ban, NPP members would have captured the galamsey sites.
“They will publicly say galamsey should be stopped but their own people will be engaging in it and bringing the money. Party hia sika [Party needs money]. We all heard the tape. President Akufo-Addo cannot crack the whip because he is involved,” he added.
Source: theGhanaianVoice.Com