Former President John Dramani Mahama says the next administration of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will ensure that artisanal small-scale mining, also known as “galamsey”, is regulated to provide sustainable employment for the youth.
He says this will ensure that artisanal mining is environmentally friendly to the country’s water bodies, among others.
Addressing separate meetings of mining communities in the Upper Denkyira East and West constituencies in the Central Region as well as Obuasi East and Obuasi West constituencies in the Ashanti Region on Monday, Mr Mahama said his government resorted to new ways of tackling the galamsey problem when it became clear that using the military to clamp down on them was not going to provide a long term solution.
He added that his government therefore considered a new legal regime for addressing the issue.
“But the current government is promising a new policy and we are hoping that they implement it to allow small scale miners start working immediately. If not, the NDC government to be formed after the 2020 general elections would implement a new regulation to enable the small scale miners work effectively”, he said.
Mr Mahama who is on a four-day campaign tour of the Ashanti Region, ahead of the flagbearership election of the NDC, also bemoaned the harsh economic conditions prevailing in the country and promised to work hard to reduce the high cost of living, when elected in the 2020 elections.
Source: James Agyenim-Boateng
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HABA? I THINK MR. MAHAMA IS MAKING POLITICS SO CHEAP. MAY I ASK, IS HE THE SAME PERSON WHO WENT TO KYEBI TO INSULT THE PEOPLE THAT KYEBI IS THE CAPITAL OF GALAMSEY YET COULDN'T DO A PIN ABOUT IT? MR. MAHAMA TRAVELLED THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE NATION AND SAW HOW GALAMSEY HAS DESTROYED ALL OUR WATER BODIES AND DEPLETED THE ENVIRONMENT YET AS A WEAK AND INCOMPETENT AS HE IS COULDN'T DO A PIN ABOUT IT. IN THE EARLY DAYS OF HIS PRESIDENCY, HE STOOD AT TEMA TO PROMISE THE WHOLE NATION THAT HE WOULD MAKE THE ACCRA-TEMA MOTOWAY A SIX LANE MOTOWAY. WHAT DO WE SEE AT THE END OF HIS TENURE IN OFFICE? THE MOTOWAY HE LEFT FOR GHANA IS NOW A DEATH TRAP. IF WANNA SEE A MAN WHO IS DESPERATE, JUST GO SHOPPING FOR MR. JOHN DRAMANI 'INCOMPETENT MAN' MAHAMA. I KNOW GHANAIANS ARE WISER THAN HIM AND PRAY THE NDC THEMSELVES COULD READ BETWEEN THE LINES AND REJECT HIM FOR A MORE CREDIBLE CANDIDATE. LONG LIVE THE GREAT ADAKLU KINGDOM! LONG LIVE GHANA!
Ah, Ah, Ah! Since when did this CHEAP politician realize this. Just a propaganda as they have been doing with every good thing NPP does. We have not forgotten one-time premium John Mill/Mahama/NDC promised Ghanaians on NHIS. What did we see - Total collapse of NHIS. NEVER AGAIN!
AHHHHHH AGYA NKW-SEA-SEM NE NKWA-SEA-FO WO WIASE. MAHAMA WA-NI-NWU ASEM
Drivers of NDC officials SHOULD respect traffic regulations. On Sunday 11th November 2018 around 8.08 am, a light green pick-up vehicle, registration number GS 1639 - 16, branded with posters of a candidate for Chairmanship, driving from Accra to Tema lanes of the motorway, dangerously made unauthorized crossing of the median and blatantly tried to join the fast lane of the Tema to Accra side of the motorway. Is it GHS1 toll that cannot be paid by the driver of a vehicle bearing the posters of former Minister under the NDC?
incompetent one and you could not do it long 8 yrs u think Ghanaians still have short memory as u said , We waiting fully waiting for u Mr incompetent one. Greedy presidential candidate because u deserve not to call former president. why are u so greedy and selfish why , u think Ghana belongs to u and ur family 5 banks collapse because of ur greedy brother Ibrahim mahama could not paid the huge loans he took from those banks and u want to come back so that u will steal again to pay ur corrupt brother debts never.