13/09/2024
Mr President,
Labor cannot trust you on this. You put your Presidency on the line and quickly went to take it back. It is decidedly clear that you have failed in the fight against this menace.
Despite all the powers you wield under Ghana’s constitution and your love to fully assume the tag of Commander in Chief of Ghana’s Armed Forces, your demonstrable lack of political will to tackle the kind of mining that has now muddied our water bodies makes it clear to all that, you cannot do it all by yourself, and your orders to the security agencies to act, may merely be a facade.
Please listen to the specific demands from labor, civil society, identifiable groups and the owners of the land, and kindly open up in engaging all for a national conversation about this matter. This is about our life and with respect, you cannot pretend to understand the issues better than we the people whose kidneys, respiratory systems and livelihoods are being risked by a few people’s filthy desire for wealth which they would die and leave behind.
Your orders won’t douse our resolve to demonstrate and strike to shut down the entire public sector. So please meet all, listen to the demands and let us all be part of the action. Else these orders merely amount to romancing a stone. They cannot douse our resolve.
