{"id":1216814,"date":"2022-10-05T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/05\/my-galamsey-fight-caused-npp-significant-losses-in-election-2020\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:32:10","slug":"my-galamsey-fight-caused-npp-significant-losses-in-election-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/05\/my-galamsey-fight-caused-npp-significant-losses-in-election-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"My galamsey fight caused NPP &#8216;significant losses&#8217; in election 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has expressed how difficult the fight against illegal mining, also known as galasmey has been.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the National House of Chiefs on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, the President said the fight against illegal mining has been prominent on his list since he assumed office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince I assumed office in 2017 I have made it a central feature of my presidency to lead in the efforts to rid our country of this menace, which we all now call galamsey. Indeed, it was an important aspect of my inaugural address of that day\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has not been popular, and we have not got the immediate results that I was looking for,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo said the view he made to fight the menace five years ago cost him and the NPP \u201csignificant losses in the mining communities\u201d during election 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turned out that my statement that I was putting my presidency on the line in the fight against galamsey was neither bombast nor recklessness. It was a simple truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The President is nevertheless committed to fulfilling the promise he made to Ghanaians to bring an end to the menace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ask you all to join hands with me in the fight against illegal mining, in order to bring an end to the devastation of our landscape and the pollution of water bodies. We have to win that fight to keep our environment clean and protect our land and waters,\u201d he told the chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo in July 2017, in a similar forum against illegal mining, organised to get Ghana\u2019s chiefs involved in the fight against galamsey put his presidency on the line for the fight. He vowed to stop the menace, even if he ends up losing the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"oK18ku04MHA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Galamsey fight: Police arrests Chief of Sefwei Ellubo and his brother\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oK18ku04MHA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has expressed how difficult the fight against illegal mining, also known as galasmey has been. Addressing the National House of Chiefs on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, the President said the fight against illegal mining has been prominent on his list since he assumed office. \u201cSince I assumed office in 2017 I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1216816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216814","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\/1216814","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=1216814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}