The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Eastern Region has surprisingly defended the National Women’s Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kate Gyamfua after her excavators and other mining concessions were burnt by an anti-galamsey taskforce.
The president of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Akufo Addo has been ruthless in dealing with the galamsey (local slang for illegal mining) menace as excavators and other items used in the activity are being seized and destroyed.
After the NPP’s Mrs. Gyamfua suffered the same fate, the Regional Communications Officer of the NDC Mr. Darlas Ampomah Williams released a statement saying the burning of Mrs. Gyamfua’s excavators was an action in response to a criticism made against Minister of Roads and Highways,
Mr. Kwesi Amoako-Atta, who also happens to be the MP for the Atiwa West Constituency, for his discrimination in fixing roads in the region. Mrs Gyamfua had called out the Roads Minister for being overly selective in fixing roads across the country.
“It is public knowledge how Ms Kate Gyamfua has bemoaned the horrible state of other roads in the Eastern Region apart from the hometowns of the President and his cousin, the Roads Minister, and personally called him out to act without discrimination,” the statement read.
“This is a few weeks before her company’s equipment was burnt down,” the NDC observed.
The NDC wondered: “Has the supposed fight against galamsey become nepotistic to the extent that perceived critics of Akufo-Addo and his family members are penalized using state-sanctioned operations such as “operation Halt”?”
SOURCE: www.Ghgossip.com
