Former President John Dramani Mahama has said 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.
The regulation, he explained, will ensure that artisanal mining is environmentally friendly to the country’s water bodies.
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, 12 November 2018, Mr Mahama said his erstwhile 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.
Mr Mahama said his government, therefore, considered a new legal regime of 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 to 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 to work effectively”, he said.
Mr Mahama, who is on a four-day campaign tour of the Ashanti Region, ahead of the flag bearer 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 if elected in the 2020 elections.
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Is this man the Jesus we have been waiting for? who told him he is coming back. someone ask this man to pass me that stuff he is using.
You should take Mahama seriously because so many people in Ghana are blind with tribalism and illiteracy. If not the aforementioned reasons, who will vote for the NDC Party? Our woes and wretchedness come from AFRC/PNDC/NDC Governments. The NDC members have duped the nation, and are making noise as if they are saints to change the minds of the imbeciles in the society.
This ford bribe taker is a conman.... So what were you doing in your first term? You were sleeping on the job while your ministers were grabbing double salary.....
Is only Jesus Christ is the one who is coming again not Mahama, you are not coming agaain so stop my second coming.
I WONDER THIS EX PRESIDENT DONT FEEL ASHAMED OF HIMSELF. GREEDY MAN ALWAYS THINKING OF HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY ESPECIALLY HIS CHILDREN. YOU ALLOWED THIS CHINISE PEOPLE TO DISTROY OUR WATER BODIES, OUR LAND, AND FOREST RESERVES WHICH HAS BEEN THERE YOUR YEARS. IT IS DURING YOUR TIME THAT NOTHING WAS UNDER CONTROL FROM YOUR CORRUPT GOV.
for the where? you greedy man
***barred word*** gyimigyimii ''you think Ghanaians are ***barred word*** and shot memory to give you second chance
KWASE-A KWA. GYI-MII- ***barred word*** PO-LI-TI-CIAN. ***barred word*** TA-LK.
🔥🔥🔥🔥 Hey Mr review awaaaaaay Mr Regularlize another awaaaaaaay Mahama I am clapping at your back Mahamathe drums are beating mad saying don’t come again,Domt come again.So all you know in life is either review or regularlize you can’t think for your self tseaaa pls my mind is made up u took us to IMF thank Gid through NPP we are coming out Fa wa s3m ko koraaa
Oh, NDC! What have you seen in Ghanaians that you underrate them so much as capable to spur them on to believe all those Kwaku Ananse stories? It is high time that Ghanaians give up NDC as a Party capable of undertaking policies worthy of making a meaningful impact on their lives. Rawlings's regime was a murderous flop and Mahama's, incompetence and corruption. In contrast, the best so far of the NDC's regime was that of Pr. Mills. Therefore, I don't see the reason why the Ghanaian electorates should decide for NDC/Mahama against NPP/Nana. NDC as opposition Party is a mess, catastrophe and in Governance to date, t has not been able to live up to the task. The Founder of the NDC, Rawlings condemns his Party as corrupt and makes U-turn of his corrupt-allegation when there is speculation of Mahama deciding on Rawlings's daughter as his Running mate.