{"id":1203701,"date":"2022-09-13T19:53:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T19:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/13\/get-rid-of-internal-characters-neck-deep-in-galamsey-activities-or-forget-it-james-agalga-tells-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T19:53:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T19:53:50","slug":"get-rid-of-internal-characters-neck-deep-in-galamsey-activities-or-forget-it-james-agalga-tells-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/13\/get-rid-of-internal-characters-neck-deep-in-galamsey-activities-or-forget-it-james-agalga-tells-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Get rid of internal characters neck-deep in \u2018galamsey\u2019 activities or forget it \u2013 James Agalga tells Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ranking Member on Defence and Interior Committee, James Agalga has asked President Akufo-Addo to get rid of \u2018big characters\u2019 in his government who are deeply involved in illegal mining activities.<\/p>\n

The Builsa North MP noted that until such a measure is implemented, the fight against \u2018galamsey\u2019 will be an illusion.<\/p>\n

Speaking on JoyNews\u2019 The Pulse<\/strong>, Tuesday, James Agalga said the fight against \u2018galamsey\u2019 must be tackled head-on without any favour for persons with political affiliation.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernment must start being proactive. They must get rid of the internal characters who are neck-deep involved in \u2018galamsey\u2019 activities but in one way or the other have found their way into government.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, that is the starting point. When government is able to rid itself of the elements involved in \u2018galamsey\u2019 from within, then we would be able to tackle the problem head-on\u2026Not until we do tackle the fight from within, there would be collision here and there and that will make the fight against galamsey very difficult and delusional,\u201d he told Blessed Sogah.<\/p>\n

The discussion on the fight against illegal mining activities has resurfaced due to the \u2018galamsey\u2019 kingpin, Aisha Huang\u2019s return to the country despite her deportation in 2018.<\/p>\n

Aisha Huang\u2019s surprising return to \u2018galamsey\u2019 activities has raised questions with many Ghanaians beginning to believe the narrative that some political party big wigs are involved in her nefarious activities.<\/p>\n

However, the 47-year-old Chinese national\u00a0has been re-arrested together with other three accomplices and have been remanded in police custody to reappear on September 14.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Godfred Dame, has called for the case docket of the \u2018galamsey\u2019 queen and says they will begin prosecution for her past and current offences.<\/p>\n

President Akufo-Addo has since last year been deploying some soldiers to various \u2018galamsey\u2019 sites to aid in the fight against illegal mining activity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ranking Member on Defence and Interior Committee, James Agalga has asked President Akufo-Addo to get rid of \u2018big characters\u2019 in his government who are deeply involved in illegal mining activities. The Builsa North MP noted that until such a measure is implemented, the fight against \u2018galamsey\u2019 will be an illusion. Speaking on JoyNews\u2019 The Pulse, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}