Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Former President John Dramani Mahama has told President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo he has already spoken on the issue of illegal small-scale mining (Galamsey) menace.Mr Mahama wondered whether President Akufo-Addo does not live in the country to hear what he says."It looks like he doesn't live in this country because I have mentioned it over and over again, President Akufo-Addo should tell the Jubilee House press to give him my tape on galamsey which I have delivered at the University of Mines and Natural Resources," he said during his campaign tour in parts of Accra on Thursday, October 17.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.