Joyce Bawah Mogtari, a spokesperson of the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama, has tackled President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on his recent comments about the former President.President Akufo-Addo, while making a recent pronouncement on the illegal small mining (Galamsey) issue during his 'Thank You Tour' in the Northeast Region on Tuesday, October 15, asked Former President John Dramani Mahama to declare his stance on galamsey."Today, he [Mahama] said that, no, he doesn't believe in jail, that he's against galamsey, and he will enforce the law.
So once again, we have to ask ourselves, Mr.
JM, where do you stand?
What are you telling the people of Ghana?"Because every time you speak, you speak from one corner of your mouth and you speak from another corner of your mouth." He added "In the last election [2020] in the mining districts of the country, the NPP did very badly largely because the NDC presidential candidate and the party had gone around the mining areas and said that the policy that I was implementing of trying to stop galamsey would be reversed when he comes to power and that those who were already in jail for offences, the galamsey offences, all of them would be amnestied."When I said I was putting my presidency on the line, that's what I meant, that I was prepared to take the political risk involved in trying to deal with this galamsey phenomenon.