Ghana’s fight against illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, is losing steam, according to Senyo Hosi of the One Ghana Movement and the Media Coalition Against Galamsey.
Speaking on Joy News’ PM Express, Hosi did not mince words in criticizing the government’s handling of the crisis.
“Because, first of all, I actually thought that former President Akufo-Addo should have been the one man to have fixed this problem, because he wasn’t standing for election anymore. He should have left with his name high, but he didn’t,” Hosi said.
Turning his attention to the current administration, Hosi added: “This President is a one-term president, if for nothing at all. One of your closest people died. Dr. Omane Boamah is not a friend to the president; it’s his brother, one of his closest confidants.
“Mister President, if you can look at those children, Yaw, his wife and all of them and still be superintending this thing, then you’re your own honestly.”
Hosi also called for integrity and honesty in governance, stating, “We must be men with some little honour, even among thieves; there is honour, what is this? We lie!”
Highlighting the severity of the environmental issue, Hosi referenced recent findings by Joy News;
“What is the turbidity that Joy News found, Kwanyarko? It is at 94,800 NTU now, when last year we were told that it was 14,000, and all of us got up.
“In that same facility, the same Central Region, in a different plant, it was 14,000…our politicians are damn liars.”
