The Minority Leader in Parliament, , has accused the government of failing to act on its promises to tackle the illegal mining menace, popularly referred to as galamsey.
At a press conference in response to President 's 120 days in office, on Thursday, May 8, 2025, he criticised the government's inactions, stating that the promised state of emergency to address illegal mining (galamsey) has turned into silence. "The promised state of emergency has vanished, replaced by silence and inaction, while the sector minister sheds crocodile tears on national television over sorry state of our rivers, forests and farmland.
This is not leadership. "It is cowardice dressed in empty campaign rhetoric.
It, therefore, came without a surprise to the people of Ghana when recently on May Day, Organised Labour, speaking through its Secretary General, boldly condemned the extent to which galamsey is destroying our environment," he said.
