With Ghana's natural resources under growing threat from illegal mining, environmental expert and Deputy Protocol Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Frimpong, has raised serious concerns about what he calls the "conspicuous silence and inaction" of President John Mahama on the matter.
In a direct and strongly worded open letter, Frimpong questioned the President's commitment to his own 120-day anti-galamsey action plan-specifically Point 19, which pledges a ban on illegal mining in forest reserves and a national rollout of land recovery initiatives.
As the countdown nears its end, Frimpong claims that very little has been done to deliver on these promises. "Our rivers are poisoned, our lands are devastated, and our communities are suffering.
Yet, the urgency we expected from the highest office remains absent," Frimpong wrote.
