A devotee of the Movement for Change and a former leading member of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Ohene Ntow, says he has no confidence in the ruling party’s pledge to streamline the mining sector, relative to curbing the illegal mining menace, popularly called “galamsey”.
The New Patriotic Party launched their 2024 manifesto at GSTS in Takoradi on Sunday, 18th August,2024.
The event saw in attendance the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Vice President and NPP flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and wife, Samira Bawumia, the party’s Vice Presidential Candidate, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh alias NAPO, Majority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong, Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare and a host of the NPP leadership together with members and supporters as well as other dignitaries.
Delivering the manifesto to the gathering and the nation, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia pledged, if elected President, he would introduce some measures which will effectively improve small-scale mining and eliminate galamsey.
But to Nana Ohene Ntow, “if in 8 years of Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government, galamsey situation is worse and the encroachment on forest reserves is worse and we are receiving another promise, then I have an issue with it”.
To him, he has confidence issues with Bawumia’s commitment to tackle the galamsey menace, hence his trust in the manifesto is “very low”.
The manifesto, he said on Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo” show, does not give him the “kind of inspiration and hope”, stressing “I don’t trust that kind of promise”.