Director of Communication for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Hon. Buaben Asamoah has questioned the temerity of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to comment on the issue of galamsey, without first apologising to Ghanaians for the lousy role they played in tackling the menace.
Speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, the Adentan lawmaker demanded to know the measures the NDC put in place in the fight against galamsey apart from illegally seizing people’s properties.
“ . . they rather have to apologise to Ghanaians because this woman [Aisah] became queen of galamsey under the regime of former President John Dramani Mahama. They could not curb the galamsey; they seized people’s properties and the bottom line is that they could not handle the galamsey fight and the issue got out of hands,” he chided.
He stressed that the number of Chinese people involved in illegal mining and excavators import, increased in the country during the reign of the NDC.
According to him, many of the excavators imported into the country during the NDC regime did not go through DVLA checks, but rather moved from the ports straight to the forest to start mining.
" . . this Chinese woman Aisha walked as a free woman in the country under former President Mahama’s leadership when her illegal activities in the mining sector were known to the public," he alleged.
He therefore said the Akufo-Addo government has rather shown commitment in the fight against galamsey [illegal mining] as the Chinese kingpin who doubles as queen of galamsey, Aisha was deported under the NPP government.
He indicated that Osafo-Maafo’s comment over Aisha’s deportation has nothing to do with the direction of the fight against galamsey in the country.
Remphasizing on the government's committment to the fight, he said they had ban the importation of excavators into the country and secondly, conducting a reregistration exercise at DVLA in order to monitor the movement of excavators in the country.
“ . . one of the measures of controlling the activities of small scale miners is to employ the service of drones to monitor their activities in their catchment areas and a control centre where these trained drone pilots operate from, and if they notice illegalities, they alert the galamsey guards to step in to stop them,” he added.
He concluded that the galamsey menace did not start suddenly, as such the blame should be across board as everybody turned a blind eye to the menace when the galamsey seed was first planted in the country.
Source: Daniel Adu Darko/Peacefmonline.com/[email protected]
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Is there any sensible person in that hopeless party of liars, npp, infact npp is worthless bunch of clowns that knows nothing but lies and character assassination
Ok, every bad thing happened under ndc regime. You have been in power for two and have years, why are you using Aisha as bargaining chip? Why didn't you imprison her to prove you are more serious than incompetent mahama, but you senior minister is telling us jailing her won't solve Ghana problems. Which means exactly what you are accusing mahama of is what you too are doing, making you worse than him, because you preached virtue but are now practicing vice, that is wickedness.
My friend if your crop of politicians cannot do the job and will always blame everything on mahama then we must as well bring him up to continue. I hate when you guys keep faulting mahama for your difficulties when the whole nation have collectively booted him out and brought you into power to come and solve problems. I can't understand why with 124 ministers, some even working for the vice president, you still blame problems on mahama. I now understand why occupied Ghana, joy FM, imani Ghana and other civil society groups have started speaking against nana addo's government. The blame game tactics is nauseating. Even the president and his vice who are supposed to instruct and direct things are also always using mahama as their bar, when they talked about having the men and being the most competent. If they know how some of us are angry and are waiting for 2020, they would have stormed this blame game nun sense.
Even kindergarten pupil have graduated from this stage ooooo........Was galamsey queen under Mahama; so you decided not to be interested in the case, moved her out of the country with the senior minister telling us "eny3 nia ehia ni3" all to just to get back at Mahama? Oh papa lawyer???
I don't care whether the person became ***barred word*** in the era or regime of immediate past government or not but how he was caught and left out of the hook whiles citizen like MAJOR MAHAMA was gruesomely murdered on this same galamsey fight for no just cost. people livelihood were taken away from them and burnt others were shut dead because they are Ghanaians after all no one can challenge the authority in power but that is temporal. But the ultimate judge the almighty GOD who cause judgement be hear from heaven on earth against the wicked shall rain hail stones, brimstones against them they shall look for an escape root but cannot find one. HMMMMMM.
I don't cared whether the person became ***barred word*** or queen in the era or regime of immediate past government or not but how he was caught and left out of the hook whiles citizen like MAJOR MAHAMA was gruesomely murdered on this same galamsey fight for no just cost. people livelihood were taken away from them and burnt others were shut dead because they are Ghanaians after all no one can challenge the authority in power but that is temporal. But ultimate judge who cause judgement be hear from heaven on earth against the wicked they shall look for an escape root but cannot find one. HMMMMMM.