Dean of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) Law School, Professor Kofi Abotsi says it has become apparent that illegal small-scale miners (Galamseyers) are financiers of the political parties.
He expressed the view that illegal small-scale mining menace tests the law enforcement powers of the state given that the illegal miners are financiers of the parties.
In a post on his X platform, he said "The menace of galamsey tests the law enforcement powers of state against the corroding influence of politics.
With the ' criminals' apparently being financiers of parties, an unwinnable case of conflict may seem to have been created and the very legitimacy and future of Ghana's constitutional democracy may be in limbo." Meanwhile, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has pleaded with labour unions for more time to address galamsey.