The Director of Communications for the 2024 Bawumia Campaign Team, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has mocked the government's efforts at combatting illegal mining, otherwise known as galamsey, in the country.
Speaking on JoyNews and monitored by GhanaWeb on Tuesday, April 15, 2025, he stated that the government's struggle with the menace is laughable, attributing it to the policitisation of galamsey. "If you politicise galamsey, the country will be extinguished and so, we should be careful the manner in which we attempt to politicise galamsey.
When I wake up and I see galamsey issues and the way this government is struggling with it...
sometimes, I wake up and laugh at them. "It is wrong for you to go and stand on a campaign trail as a presidential candidate and tell the people that 'I don't see why the NPP government will come and arrest you people in the pit,' when I assume office, 'I would release all galamseyers who were arrested in the pit and give you your excavators and go for the kingpins'," he noted.
