The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako popularly known ‘Chairman Wontumi’ has categorically stated that he has never been involved in any illegal mining popularly known as galamsey.
“Why should I, who is always campaigning against persons who refuse to abide by laws of the country hold-on to operations that I know will destroy the country’s natural resources,” he sought to know.
In an interview with Asempa FM’s ‘Ekosii Sen’ programme, Chairman Wontumi further explained that there is a vast distinction between legal small-scale miners and galamsey operators, therefore, it is unfair when the two are described as one.
He added that he is not moved when some members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) say he is part of the master minders involved in galamsey operations.
According to him they are jealous of him claiming he used funds from his illegal mining business to fund his party's 2016 campaign programmes.
According to him, he has no doubt in mind that President Akufo-Addo and his government would be the best and only government to stop galamsey operations, to the extent that even his party members who are caught would not be spared.
Chairman Wontumi noted that his license as the Managing Director of HANSOL Mining Limited to engage in both small and large-scale mining under the Mills-Mahama administration was intentionally destroyed by the inter-ministerial taskforce set up by the NDC government to clamp down on illegal mining activities.
“I’m not surprised the NDC is accusing me of engaging in galamsey activities, because they deliberately pushed me out of business by invading my office and setting my mining equipment ablaze even though my business was legally registered and was operating within the mining laws of Ghana. They are just jealous of me,” he stated.
Source: Elizabeth Semiheva Bedi/Peacefmonline.com
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As Ghanaian we have to be circumspect and call to order the ills of people like Wontumi before we end up bringing our nation to rubbles.The activities of people like him are destroying our natural vegetation. Please let's call spade a spade and stop politicising issues of the survival of our nation. This shouldn't be NPP or NDC issue. People like Wontumi only thinks of what they get and live in oblivion, not realizing that we only have one Ghana, and once we destroy it because of greed, we both suffer whether rich or poor. When the environment is polluted and not healht friendly, the rich and the poor would breathe the same air. Let's protect our lands.
The chief bozo of the back of the beyond (Kumasi)