Galamsey: Akufo-Addo knows what to do if he indeed wants to end it – Elvis Botah

Mr Elvis Banoemuleng Botah, a former Deputy National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo knows what to do to curb the galamsey menace (illegal mining)if he indeed desires so.

“Another useless talk, another completely useless talk that will not rack in any gain, you know why, this whole galamsey thing, we are not stupid, we cannot be fooling ourselves, the President knows what to do if indeed we want the policy to stand.”

Mr Botah made the comment on Pan African TV’s Good Morning Africa on Thursday, October 6, monitored by GhanaPlus.com,

“How many of the numerous people implicated some of whom very closer to him have been taking to court? People have stolen spoons and forks and knives and they are in Nsawam for the last five years, some of them have not even been locked up on the basis of the administration of justice.

“We have a lot of people who have been on prison remand for over a decades and it is interesting when you hear what he is saying”.

Galamsey meeting with chiefs is like a group of thieves meeting to discuss how to bring theft to an end – Botah

Mr Botah made the comment while contributing to discussions on the President’s meeting with chiefs and Metropolitan, Municipal, District Chief Executives in the Ashanti Region on Wednesday, October 5 to discuss the menace of illegal mining in the region.

According to him, the meeting will not help the fight against the menace in anyway adding that the President must hold his appointees implicated in the illegality to account if he indeed wants an end to the development which is currently on the rise in the region.

“Then again chiefs, the people we call chiefs, traditional authorities who by the way have become more serious politicians than us who are card bearing members of the political parties and very complicit themselves in this issue of galamsey, you go talking to them, is like a group of thieves, am using my words advisedly, is like group of thieves, am not by this saying their thieves, I choose my words carefully, is like a group of thieves in a meeting discussing how to bring theft to an end. When they feed from theft, do you think theft will ever end?,” Mr Botah said.

Source: GhanaPlus.com