Communications Director for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s 2024 campaign, Denis Miracles Aboagye, has cautioned against politicising the illegal mining menace, popularly known as galamsey.
Speaking in an interview, he described the issue as a national crisis requiring a unified and strategic approach.
“Galamsey is a social canker, it is a menace that if you politicise the country will be extinguished and so we should be careful the manner we attempt to politicise galamsey”.
While acknowledging the severity of the problem, he criticised
President John Mahama and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for their handling of the issue.
“Sometimes when I wake up and I see galamsey issues, the way this government is struggling with it, I feel like let us laugh at them because we told them and they knew what we were saying was right”.
Miracles Aboagye also accused President Mahama of making campaign promises that undermined efforts to combat illegal mining.
“We told them that it is wrong for them to go and stand on a campaign platform as a presidential candidate and tell the people that ‘I don’t see the reason why the NPP would come and arrest them, people in the pit and that when I come to the office I will release all the galamseyers”.
