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NDC Communications Team Member, Dela Edem has accused the Akufo-Addo government of shielding members of the ruling party snared in the galamsey fight.

He expressed disappointment at the fact that despite the commitment of Ghanaians, most especially the media, in the fight against illegal mining activities, the current administration sadly let down the public.

“ . . NPP government officials are working with these seized excavators to fund their party's activities . . . indeed the NPP would have been banned by now if the party was formed in a foreign country because of it's complicity in an illegal business to finance the party."

“Through laid down initiatives of President Akufo-Addo to fight illegal mining, task force personnel’s involved in the operation seized over five hundred excavators with trackers on them and were asked to hand over the keys to members of the government's elected Inter-Ministerial Committee . . . yet they have mysteriously disappeared,” he asserted.

Dela Edem, speaking on UTV’s 'Adekye Nsroma’ show, questioned “how these seized, excavators with trackers could get missing? This makes me believe claims by party members like Kennedy Agyapong that the National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye, popularly known as Nana B and others have access to galamsey sites and the excavators”.

When the host of the show drew his attention to the fact that the Nana B has publicly discounted the Assin Central MP's wild accusations, the NDC Communicator retorted; “...for me, i strongly believe Kennedy Agyapong's assertions that government deliberately stopped this galamsey activities so it could mobilize its own members onto the field to partake in it to fund party operations.”

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