The largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has descended on President Nana Akufo-Addo and his administration in their failure to fight illegal mining in Ghana after Frimpong-Boateng’s ‘bombshell’ galamsey report.
Addressing the media as the National Communications Officer of the NDC, Sammy Gyamfi wondered how President Nana Addo’s garden in Kyebi was turned into a galamsey site by his own NPP constituent leader without his knowledge as revealed by Prof. Frimpong-Boateng in his galamsey report.
Sammy Gyamfi noted that this shows clearly that Prez Nana Addo and Bawumia led government pledged to Ghanaians that they would fight galamsey menace in the country was a lie.
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"President Akufo-Addo is complicit in the illegal galamsey menace" – Sammy Gyamfi#TV3GH #3NewsGH pic.twitter.com/k5EYYatk6x
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A number of senior members of the Akufo-Addo administration were named in the report written by Prof. Frimpong-Boateng, a former minister of the environment, and submitted to the chief of staff in March 2021. They were accused of engaging in galamsey or interfering with the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining’s work.
Speaking about the report on illegal mining that was leaked, Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, a former minister of science, environment, and technology, claimed that the government was complicit in the galamsey war.
Dr. Forson claimed in a Facebook post that Prof. Frimpong’s revelation is compelling evidence that the galamsey fight was nothing more than a staged event. He calls it outright as being fraudulent.
“Prof. Frimpong-Boateng’s report to the President on failed work of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining, which was set up by President Akufo-Addo to fight the illegal mining menace, confirms that the whole fight was a fraudulent one”, he wrote.
According to Dr. Ato Forson, the government’s current course of action is a covert support for its corrupt appointees.
“It was shrouded in a well-calculated ruse to enable key government officials and functionaries at the Presidency to dabble in the very illicit business of galamsey.”
The Minority Leader is promoting a thorough investigation into the allegations in the meantime.
“The revealing issues and several others in the damning report call for a national probe”, he added.
