Director of Communications for the Bawumia Campaign, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has issued a strong call to the government to abandon what he calls “public relations gimmicks” in the fight against illegal mining and confront the problem head-on.
Aboagye urged the President and other key officials to acknowledge the gravity of the situation and take decisive action.
“If the President is watching, or anybody responsible is watching, they should freeze and pause all the PR attempts and confront the issues. We are in a deep crisis,” he said.
He stressed that public confidence was still strong, and Ghanaians were ready to support the government if it demonstrated real commitment to ending galamsey.
“Right now, the entire country is ready to rally behind them, and the last thing we want is gaslighting and PR and telling us everything is fine when we know everything is not fine,” he added.
Aboagye also criticized the government’s approach to gold purchasing, accusing it of indirectly enabling illegal mining activities.
“Stop buying the gold from the galamseyers because you are enabling galamsey if you are providing an already ready market for them. I thought the Goldboard was actually going to make it difficult for illegal gold to be sold,” he stated.
He explained that current practices were making it easier, not harder, for illegal miners to sell their gold.
“Rather, today in Ghana, gold sales are easier than they were in the past, because you have agents working in the villages now and picking up gold for the government.
“And when I hear the President say that, whether it is from illegal sources or legal sources, the state will buy it, that is enabling galamsey,” he argued.
