Video: All My Government Appointees Engaged In Illegal Mining Will Be Forced To Resign – Mahama Pledges

In the fight against illegal mining, former president John Dramani Mahama, a presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), says he will enact a new strategy to combat illegal mining if re-elected as president.

He claims that the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) recent, tough stance against illegal mining has proven unworkable.

That, he said, had only helped to worsen the situation and made political actors and their task force teams profited from the arrangement.

It was in light of this that, he want ministers, government appointees and officials to stay away from the mining industry, if they were interested in being part of his government, when he is re-elected.

Speaking at the third annual Transformational Dialogue on small-scale mining at Fiapre near Sunyani on Wednesday [May 15, 2024] on the theme: “Charting our courtesy mining vision and the future of illegal mining,” Mr Mahama argued that the Illegal mining ‘fight’ approach by the NPP government was “unsustainable.”

Mr Mahama said when he is re-elected as president, no minister of state, government appointee, or official will be allowed to venture into the mining sector.

He explained that in his government, if you were a minister of state or a metropolitan, municipal, district chief executive or a government official and you undertook mining activity, he would ask you to resign and concentrate on your mining activity.

 

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