{"id":1226930,"date":"2022-10-17T17:43:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T17:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/17\/for-once-i-disagree-with-some-of-otumfuos-comments-about-galamsey-and-the-npp-maurice-ampaw\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T17:43:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T17:43:38","slug":"for-once-i-disagree-with-some-of-otumfuos-comments-about-galamsey-and-the-npp-maurice-ampaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/17\/for-once-i-disagree-with-some-of-otumfuos-comments-about-galamsey-and-the-npp-maurice-ampaw\/","title":{"rendered":"For Once I Disagree With Some Of Otumfuo\u2019s Comments About Galamsey And The NPP \u2013 Maurice Ampaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ce4830c043c2472fae718874ec1605bb\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Overlord of the Asante state has been one of the vocal speakers against galamsey. In a number of commentary, Otumfuo has insisted that there are many chiefs and government officials involved in galamsey and noted that the fight against galamsey isn\u2019t yielding fruits because of the involvement of certain powerful people in galamsey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is annoying and disgusting. Your water is being destroyed and yet you say nothing. For the government we have a lot to contend with them. The government knows it is bad.\u201d Otumfuo said to his Asanteman Council. Earlier in another meeting with the United States ambassador to Ghana, the Asantehene said that even after Akufo-Addo put his presidency on the line, not much has been achieved. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4434be5927fd4481ae517516340a557b\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Maurice Ampaw on Mmra Ne Abrabo Mu Nsem was of the view that though the Asantehene made some valid points about galamsey, there were other points that he disagreed with. Lawyer Ampaw said that the Asantehene cannot blame the government for the failed fight in galamsey. He noted that this isn\u2019t the time for the blame game and was of the view that the government is doing everything possible to end galamsey.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7a749dbf32a340ca8250cc3ea1cb704c\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Maurice Ampaw explained that indeed river bodies are being destroyed but said this doesn\u2019t mean that Otumfuo should blame the Akufo-Addo led government for the mess that is going on. He called for all to join hands so that the President stops illegal mining. Interestingly, Maurice Ampaw added that there is no proof that his boss Wontumi is involved in galamsey as some people have said.<\/p>\n<p>This comment of Maurice Ampaw will be seen by many hypocritical because there is no denying fact that there are many party big wigs involved in galamsey. Many feel the president might even know some of those involved and yet he has looked on while those under him have destroyed Ghana\u2019s waters. <\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Still_Unbeatable (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\">\nAsante<br \/>\nAsantehene<br \/>\nAsanteman Council<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nOtumfuo Osei Tutu II<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Overlord of the Asante state has been one of the vocal speakers against galamsey. In a number of commentary, Otumfuo has insisted that there are many chiefs and government officials involved in galamsey and noted that the fight against galamsey isn\u2019t yielding fruits because of the involvement of certain powerful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1226931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9342,3379,8168,12861,9344,7025,8278],"class_list":["post-1226930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-ampaw","tag-comments","tag-disagree","tag-galamsey","tag-maurice","tag-npp","tag-otumfuos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226930","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=1226930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}