The Member of Parliament for Effiduase-Asokore Dr. Nana Ayew Afriye has accused Media General’s TV3 of doctoring his comment on galamsey.
In video that has since gone viral Dr. Ayew Afriyie on a campaign platform accused some person of importing galamseyers into the country to mine in Ghana’s river bodies, and stated saying “It is someone behind that to force the NPP government to stop galamsey so that we will lose the seats. We won’t stop galamseyers today or tomorrow.”
Speaking in an interview on Eyewitness News he accused TV3 saying, “So, what the TV3 people did was that when I said we will not stop today or tomorrow, they actually truncated and doctored it out and then made it look like all I said was we are not doing anything about galamsey and we will not stop today or tomorrow. That is a misrepresentation, it actually put me out of context,”
The Chairman of the Parliament Health committee added saying, “That is actually why many people will wonder if Ayew Afriye will stand on principle and as I am speaking with you I still stand on the basic principle that there are irresponsible small-scale mining and there are responsible small-scale mining. We cannot put a ban on small-scale mining, that is not fair.
