Kwame Asare Obeng, Member of Parliament for Gomoa Central, has alleged that members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) are involved in illegal mining in an attempt to discredit the President.
According to him, these NPP members have been deployed in large numbers to forest reserves and water bodies across the country to cause havoc and subsequently blame the Mahama administration for failing to combat the menace.
“When they saw that the NDC had come to power, they decided to engage in galamsey to disgrace John Mahama.
In the whole of Ghana, it is only NPP bigwigs who are involved in galamsey, and it is intentional — to create the impression that the GoldBod initiative is meant to promote illegal mining,” he said.
