Member of Parliament for Bodi, Hon. Sampson Ahi has charged Ghanaians to hold President Akufo Addo responsible for every killing of an illegal miner.
According to him, the president’s comments during his campaign tour is now biting him hard because he promised to let the illegal mining activity continue and has now launched a fight against the activity. Then Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, while on his campaign trail ahead of the 2016 general elections, is reported by the Ghana News Agency as saying that the party would not halt illegal mining operations popularly known as “galamsey” in the Western Region when elected into power.
While addressing party faithful at the fore court of the Tarkwa community centre said considering the staggering number of Ghanaian’s who are involved in galamsey, the NPP would rather regularise the operations of illegal miners to enable them operate responsibly to earn a living.
The NPP in power would also reduce the rate at which farm lands are destroyed and water bodies polluted in the region.
But soon after President Akufo Addo was elected and sworn into power he began a relentless war against galamsey placing a 6-month ban on small-scale mining and a temporary halt on the issuance of new mining licences in order to allow the natural bodies, degraded by the activities of illegal miners to recover.
He has stated clearly that he was willing to incur the wrath of potential voters and put his Presidency on the line by continuing the fight against galamsey.
Government earlier this month deployed a 400 strong Military/Police Taskfoce [Operation Vanguard] to some parts of the country to combat the galamsey menace. An illegal miner was shot and killed last week in the Ashanti Region after a team of illegal miners allegedly clashed with the taskforce.
But speaking on Agoo TV and to Kasapa FM, Hon. Sampson Ahi stated that several youth were encouraged by Nana Akufo Addo’s campaign talk and as a result went for loans to secure equipment to venture into the illegal activity.
“Nana Akufo Addo must be held responsible for the death of anyone who dies in relation to galamsey. You motivate them into galamsey with your campaign talk and when you get power, you turn round and use armed soldiers and police to drive them away from where they get their livelihood. In the process if someone is been killed, who should we hold responsible for such death. The President must be blamed for the needless deaths, he caused it.”
Source: kasapafmonline.com
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Exactly who is this man again...? Someone remind me...😑
THE MAN IS A DISGRACE TO HIS CONSTITUENCY PARLIAMENT
THEN JOHN MAHAMA SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 265 DEATHS OF GHANAIANS WHO DIED IN THE FILLING STATION FIRE DISASTER.
He can't even speak good English yet he wont keep mute....ndc mammal !!!
You are the most ***barred word*** MP in Ghana. Bushman mp.
"AKOA WOYI DE3, NESO GYIMIFO) EBI NI GHANA. HOW CAN THIS MONKEY BE ALLOWED IN PARLIAMENT TO MAKE LAWS FOR PEOPLE TO OBEY? HE CAN HARDLY UNDERSTAND SIMPLE ISSUES LET ALONE COMPLEX AND COMPLICATED ONES WHICH IS CLEARLY BEYOND HIS LITTLE PEA BRAINS. AB*AFUNU. AND YET THIS FUULL WILL BE PAID SO MUCH MONEY AS PARLIAMENTARIAN AND THEN EX-GRATIA WHEN HE IS BOOTED OUT. WHAT CAN THIS THING CONTRIBUTE TO NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT? TRULY GOVERNANCE HAS GONE TO THE DOGS.
I am sorry for you that you are our MP. A big ***barred word***.
Some people in Ghana just talk by heart. Nana Addo should do what? Continue to talk by heart.
Sometin you ahi or what do you call your self and your incompetent mahama could not do for eight years yet you have the tin call mouth to talk about it, shame on to you
M0nkey.Why is the President responsible for the deaths of people who decide to act illegally and then choose to confront the law enforcement agencies?This is Ghana where villains are turned into saints and those who uphold the law become the villains. One of the most annoying things I've heard of recent is one of the ileigal miners saying on radio that the dead galamsey man should be given everything that the late Major Mahama was given including a state burial.Are we becoming a nation with an exceedingly loud voices of stu-pi-dity? Another f001 was suggesting that in so far as the promised jobs for the galamsey operators are not ready they should be allowed to work in peace. Guess where all these nonsensical drivel is coming from.The NDC can never be a credible opposition force that can keep government on its toes.