Deputy Director of Elections and IT for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Rashid Tanko-Computer, has launched a scathing attack on the New Patriotic Party (NPP), accusing them of deliberately pursuing destructive policies that left Ghana's forest reserves in ruins.
Tanko-Computer alleged that NPP officials enabled and even participated in illegal mining activities, commonly known as galamsey. "These people did a sustained strategy of destroying the forest cover.
You remember the word they used 'party hia sika.' And Ghanaians were quiet about it," he said on the maiden edition of Prime Insight on Joy Prime on Saturday, August 16. "When they said 'party hia sika,' therefore they should allow them to go in there.
Even government officials were importing excavators and moving heavy machines into the forest areas, destroying everything." He argued that the NPP's eight years in office saw an entrenched culture of forest degradation and reckless exploitation of natural resources. "They used 96 months, that is eight years, to destroy the forest.
