Former Senior Governance Adviser for the UN Professor Baffour Agyeman-Duah has noted that Ghana as a nation boasts of many hypocritical politicians.
When discussing the battle against galamsey, Prof. Agyeman-Duah pointed out that the nation’s leaders—religious and political—know what causes the disease but are still engaging in the customary game of finger-pointing.
One thing we must realize is that there are many hypocrites and dishonest persons in positions of leadership throughout this nation, including our political leaders and leaders in all spheres of society, including religious figures.
“That is a fact. We are hypocrites and we are very dishonest. On galamsey, everybody knows what is going on but for the sake of politics, to win power, when one government is doing something those in opposition will go around and say look ‘when we come we will restore you’ but of course, when they come they will not restore them. That is the level of hypocrisy and dishonesty we have, that is what is killing us,” the Chief Executive Officer of the John Agyekum Kuffuor Foundation said in a TV3 interview
The country’s galamsey threat is something that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reaffirmed his commitment to addressing.
The President remarked, “80% of the lands in our country remain to be under your possession, much of it having been obtained through the blood and sacrifices of your ancestors,” in a speech to the Chiefs on Wednesday, October 5.
“The remaining 20% comes from state acquisition from you and is held in trust for the people of Ghana. This indicates that even while the president technically owns the soil minerals in trust for the people, in the end, the wellbeing of the state of the lands is our collective duty.
