The Convenor for the Media Coalition Against , Dr Ken Ashigbey, has alleged that members of both the (NDC) and (NPP) are involved in illegal mining activities.

Speaking during an interview on TV3, and monitored by GhanaWeb on Monday, April 7, 2025, he claimed that since the John Dramani Mahama government assumed office, the NDC had taken a significant control of the illegal mining operations. "The NDC will say it is my government that is in power.

But you know what the NPP people have done?

They've gone behind them, they have done a merger, so now the NDC who claim that their party is in power they have 70 percent of the booty and then these NPP who were doing it before have now joined hands with the NDC, because they have the excavators and all of those things there, so they have joined hands," he stated.