The Deputy Ranking Member of Parliament‘s Foreign Affairs Committee, Nana Kwame Asafo-Adjei Ayeh, has revealed a deep-rooted secret about how politically exposed persons engage in mining activities across the country.
According to him, functionaries of both the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) who are involved in mining activities have a mutual understanding among themselves, regardless of their public show of political rivalry.
Giving details of his claims on Channel 1 TV, he explained that currently, all the miners who were affiliated with the previous regime under Nana Addo have made way for their peers in the NDC as far as their activities are concerned.
“Today, go to the communities — all the NPP miners have now handed over their tools to the NDC miners,” Asafo-Adjei Ayeh is reported to have said.
Asafo-Adjei Ayeh continued, “They will tell you that your government is in power, so front it. Because when the people come and it is me—an NPP person—they won’t let me work.”
“I live in a mining community. All the miners who were NPP or who have affiliations with the NPP have handed over their tools to the NDC miners…The NDC people have now invested heavily in mining,” the MP told citinewsroom.com.
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According to the MP, miners affiliated with the government in power feel protected under the leadership of their party as they engage in galamsey-related activities that pollute almost all waterbodies across the country.
The MP’s admission that mining activities in the country are carried out by politically exposed persons with ties to both the NDC and the NPP lends credence to the long-held public perception about the main bankrollers of galamsey activities in the country.
To some netzines, Nana Kwame Asafo-Adjei Ayeh only revealed the naked truth about how members of both NDC and NPP have contributed immensely to activities of mining, including illegal mining, which have now become a threat to the country’s security.
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