Akufo-Addo supervised the ruin of Ghana’s forests – Gbande

Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mustapha Gbande, has launched a crisp critique of the Akufo-Addo administration, accusing it of being astatine the bosom of Ghana’s ongoing biology crisis.

Speaking connected Citi Eyewitness News connected Thursday, May 8, Gbande claimed the authorities has actively enabled the demolition of wood reserves and h2o bodies by failing to decently modulate mining activities.

“We each cognize that the cumulative degradation of our wood reserves and h2o bodies was supervised, incentivized, granted, and approved by President Akufo-Addo and his Minister for Lands, with the engagement of his appointees,” Gbande alleged, drafting a nonstop enactment betwixt authorities enactment and the amerciable mining activities—commonly referred to arsenic ‘galamsey’—ravaging Ghana’s ecosystems.

He criticised regulatory institutions for failing to fulfill their responsibilities, stating, “You person a work done these institutions to supervise the mining activity—they couldn’t bash that.”

Gbande besides contrasted the existent government’s handling of biology extortion with that of the NDC’s caller approach, pointing to a surge successful enforcement nether the caller leadership.

“If we person come, and wrong 4 months you person seen the aggression with which the military, the police, and successful fact, nationalist information are combating mining-related crime, past it tells you who’s superior astir redeeming Ghana’s environment,” helium said.