{"id":1221241,"date":"2022-10-11T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T11:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/11\/akufo-addo-is-pretending-to-fight-galamsay-to-attract-money-from-climate-fund-bawa-mogtari\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:11:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T11:11:45","slug":"akufo-addo-is-pretending-to-fight-galamsay-to-attract-money-from-climate-fund-bawa-mogtari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/11\/akufo-addo-is-pretending-to-fight-galamsay-to-attract-money-from-climate-fund-bawa-mogtari\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo Is Pretending To Fight Galamsay To Attract Money From Climate Fund \u2013 Bawa Mogtari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/b55b1486a3204b3da8657c2067921050\" alt=\"Mahama 'needs no pressure' to concede - Bawa-Mogtari\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">An Aide to former President John Dramani Mahama, Joyce Bawa Mogtari has alleged that President Akufo-Addo is pretending to fight illegal mining, in order to access funds from the climate action fund.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">She said President Akufo-Addo has never been committed to the fight against illegal mining, also known as galamsay and so they could be an ulterior motive behind his recent renewed effort to end the menace.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">&#8220;President Akufo-Addo has no intention. He never intended. It was never part of his plan. I am almost certain that maybe there is some climate fund available that he wants to collect so he has to make an effort and pretend that he is fighting galamsay. That is all it is. Oh yes it is a mere huff and puff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">&#8220;He means absolutely nothing. We were supposed to put our jobs on the line&#8230;In fact, he should have been resigning by now\u201d, she stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Mrs Mogtari says if the president was serious about ending illegal small-scale mining in the country, he would not be shielding members of his party and government who are reported to be involved in galamsay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">&#8220;If he leaves the scene now, I can bet you a lot more will be done to stem galamsay&#8221;, she said on Metro TV&#8217;s Good Morning Ghana show on Monday, October 10, 2022\u201d, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">She further adds that the President should have resigned for failing to end galamsay especially after he put his presidency on the line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cAt least tell us that I am a very proud man that I have failed in my fight against galamsay, in any case I have failed in the other things I promised to do so let me go home and rest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cBut of course his Vice President is the same. Let&#8217;s stop paying lip services to the realities on the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">This is a serious existential threat that we all are grappling with. I think that pretending to fight it is even a lot worse. You should just do nothing then so at least we know you are doing nothing&#8221;, she added<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OPolitics (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAkufo-Addo<br \/>\nJohn Dramani Mahama<br \/>\nJoyce Bawa Mogtari<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Aide to former President John Dramani Mahama, Joyce Bawa Mogtari has alleged that President Akufo-Addo is pretending to fight illegal mining, in order to access funds from the climate action fund. She said President Akufo-Addo has never been committed to the fight against illegal mining, also known as galamsay and so they could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1221243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[648,2690,6081,6574,1271,1353,25341,13331,383,8667],"class_list":["post-1221241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-akufoaddo","tag-attract","tag-bawa","tag-climate","tag-fight","tag-fund","tag-galamsay","tag-mogtari","tag-money","tag-pretending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221241","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=1221241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}