I’ve not seen any progress in the galamsey fight since Ex-President Kufuor’s tenure – Sulemana Braimah

Chief Executive Officer of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah, says he has not observed any significant progress in Ghana’s fight against illegal mining, despite several interventions by successive governments. According to him, “To the point of whether this government is fighting galamsey, we are making progress or not, to be honest with you, I have not seen any progress,” he said. He argues that the country appears to be repeating measures that have been implemented by previous administrations without achieving lasting results in curbing the menace.

Speaking on JoyNews’ Newsfile on Saturday, October 31, Mr Braimah said interventions to tackle illegal mining could be traced back to the early 2000s, when former President John Agyekum Kufuor introduced Operation Flush Out. He said subsequent administrations, including those of the late President John Evans Atta Mills, John Dramani Mahama and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, had each introduced measures to address the problem. “What is happening has happened before; it started under President Kufuor. President Kufuor set up Operation Flash Out and deployed the troops. After President Kufuor, President Atta Mills came in and continued what President Kufuor was doing. ” “In 2014, President Mahama set up the Inter-Ministerial Committee to deal with the illegal mining thing; military men were deployed, and at some point, four hundred excavators were announced to be seized. All the way to President…