Deputy Director of Elections and IT for the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Rashid Tanko-Computer, has taken a strong swipe at the previous New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration under former President Nana Akufo-Addo, accusing it of deliberately failing to act on key reports that could have curtailed illegal mining (galamsey).
Speaking on the maiden edition of Prime Insight on Joy Prime, Saturday, August 16, Tanko-Computer recalled how reports on the work of committees set up to fight galamsey were simply ignored by the presidency. "When the minister wrote a fine report about the activities of that committee on galamsey, what did they do?
So at that time, if the presidency was committed and made sure that those activities they were involved in ended at that level, we wouldn't be where we are," he stated.
According to him, the government's failure to act allowed the menace to grow worse, with dire consequences for the nation's forests and water bodies.
