The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, has alleged that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) are responsible for the proliferation of galamsey in the country.
Speaking during a recent interview, Wontumi said the NDC are the fathers of the galamsey menace and must be held accountable for it.
He also said that the only reason galamsey is such a topical issue now is that the Akufo-Addo-led government is fighting it, unlike the NDC who kept it under wraps.
Wontumi claimed that mining equipment he owned during the NDC administration was seized by those in power and distributed to their cronies to use to mine gold – starting the whole menace of galamsey.
“NDC introduced galamsey in Ghana. Galamsey can only be attached to the NDC. They are the ones who brought galamsey to Ghana,” he said during an interview on Neat Fm.
“In 2013 when they (the NDC) collapsed my business, they seized 500 of my excavators and 295 containers. After seizing this equipment, they shared it among themselves. That is how Kweku Boahene got an excavator because he does not have the money to buy any mining equipment. After sharing my equipment, they began mining indiscriminately. They are the ones who started mining irresponsibly and that is how come galamsey started.
“Galamsey has only become a national issue now because Nana Addo is fighting it and everybody is talking about it. So, if we are talking about galamsey, it is the NDC who are responsible for it. It is their surname,” he reiterated.
Source: theGhanaianVoice.Com