Communications Director for the New Patriotic Party’s Flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s campaign, Miracles Aboagye says there is no positive correlation between the fight against illegal mining (galamsey) and the removal of Samuel Abu Jinapor from the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources.
Miracles argues the removal of Abu Jinapor from office will not aid in the galamsey fight in any way. To him, prior to Abu Jinapr’s appointment to the lands ministry, the galamsey canker already existed.
“Was there Galamsey before the Lands Minister took office? If you fire the Land Minister tomorrow, will it end Galamsey? The point is, before I say that, let’s relieve you of your role as a host on this program, you might have been culpable of something. I might have seen that you are either incompetent in fixing it or doing what you are doing, or you have not done what you are supposed to do,” he said on JoyNews.
According to the politician, he sees no need in using the minister as a scapegoat.
His statement come as a reaction to calls by some members of the minority group in parliament who have demanded the dismissal of the Lands Minister and his deputies.
These MPs have accused the minister of failing to safeguard the country’s water bodies from the harrowing effects of galamsey.
