The Director of Communications for the Bawumia Campaign Team, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has revealed that Ghana is currently receiving 200 excavators daily, intensifying concerns over the ongoing illegal mining (galamsey).
Mr Aboagye disclosed that the volume of machinery imports has previously caused severe congestion at the country’s ports, requiring urgent measures to ease the backlog.
“Today we are getting 200 excavators on a daily basis into Ghana. The last time, the port got congested to the extent that they had to decongest it,” he said on Newsfile on Saturday.
Mr Aboagye also criticised the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) government for what he described as a delayed acknowledgment of the worsening galamsey situation.
“The NDC and the government, as we have today, are finally coming to the realisation that galamsey has worsened,” he added.
He referenced a recent media briefing where the President and the Communications Minister challenged the public to provide evidence that illegal mining had deteriorated, a stance Mr Aboagye found unconvincing given the scale of the problem.
“The last time when the President met the media, and the government communications minister was speaking, he actually had the energy to tell the entire country that if you think galamsey has worsened, provide evidence,” he noted.
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