President Mahama didn't promise to end galamsey within 120 days – Vanderpuye jabs NPP

The National Coordinator of the District Road Improvement Programme (DRIP), Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye, has stated that President John Dramani Mahama ne'er promised to extremity amerciable mining, popularly known arsenic galamsey, wrong the archetypal 120 days of his presidency.

In an interrogation connected Channel One TV, monitored by GhanaWeb connected Thursday, May 8, 2025, Vanderpuye explained that the galamsey menace cannot beryllium resolved successful conscionable a fewer months.

“His declaration with Ghanaians cannot beryllium afloat executed wrong 120 days. Every tenable idiosyncratic should recognize that erstwhile a authorities says, ‘I volition extremity galamsey,’ it is not an event, it is simply a process,” helium remarked.

The erstwhile lawmaker noted that civilian nine organisations (CSOs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) progressive successful the combat against galamsey person acknowledged the government's intensified efforts.

“The colour of our rivers has not changed due to the fact that they cannot alteration successful conscionable 120 days, nary substance what you do. Everyone, including each these CSOs and NGOs progressive successful the galamsey fight, has concluded that, if for thing else, they’ve seen important effort being made. They’ve seen this combat escalate beyond what we saw successful the past.

"They've besides seen a beardown committedness from the top, peculiarly from the cardinal actors. Erastus Asare Donkor himself has concluded that, though the efforts are not perfect, helium is impressed with the cognition and level of committedness shown truthful acold successful the combat to destruct galamsey from our forests. This is not a combat that begins and ends successful 120 days, and President Mahama ne'er stated anyplace that it would,” helium emphasised.

At a property league connected the aforesaid day, Thursday, May 8, 2025, the Minority Leader successful Parliament, Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, accused the authorities of reneging connected its committedness to tackle amerciable mining with urgency.

“The government’s inaction connected amerciable mining is not conscionable disappointing, it is simply a betrayal. While successful opposition, they made bold promises, but 120 days into office, not lone has the authorities failed to act, it has besides abandoned the urgency it erstwhile championed,” Afenyo-Markin stated.

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