A special aide to former President John Dramani Mahama, Joyce Bawa Mogtari, has attacked President Akufo-Addo over the ineffectual fight against galamsey.
According to Mogtari, the President actually has no intent in fighting the menace, which is why it remains a problem which plagues Ghana to this day.
Mogtari said she suspects the President is only interested in putting up a front of a fight so the country can access some climate funds.
Speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana, Mogtari said a lot more can be done to fight galamsey if Akufo-Addo was not the President.
“If he leaves the scene now, I can bet you a lot more will be done to stem galamsey,” Bawah Mogtari said.
The former deputy Transport Minister added that President Akufo-Addo should have resigned over his failed fight after he placed his presidency on the line to combat galamsey.
“President Akufo-Addo has no intention. He never intended. It was never part of his plan. I am almost certain that maybe there is some climate funds available that he wants to collect so he has to make an effort and pretend that he is fighting galamsey. That’s all it is. Oh yes. It is a mere huff and puff.
“He means absolutely nothing. We were supposed to put our jobs on the line…in fact, he should have been resigning by now. At least tell us that I am a very proud man, that I have failed in my fight against galamsey; in any case I have failed in the other things I promised to do so let me go home and rest. But of course his Vice President is the same. Let’s stop paying lip service to the realities on the ground,” she said.
Mogtari added: “This is a serious existential threat that we all are grappling with. I think that pretending to fight it is even a lot worse. You should just do nothing then so at least we know you are doing nothing,”
Source: theGhanaianVoice.Com