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By Agnes Ansah\u00a0<\/p>\n
Accra, Oct 08, GNA \u2013 The Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP) has expressed its support for Organised Labour\u2019s decision to initiate a nationwide strike over illegal mining in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Monday, October 7, 2024, Organised Labour reaffirmed its intention to proceed with the industrial action, despite President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u2019s appeal for additional time to tackle the environmental devastation caused by the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Organised Labour has asked the government to declare a State of Emergency to address illegal mining in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A statement released on Monday by the PPP\u2019s presidential candidate, Mr. Kofi Asamoah-Siaw, affirmed the party\u2019s support for Labour\u2019s decision to move forward with its planned strike.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe consider galamsey as the single most existential threat to the Republic of Ghana.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe galamseyers are engaged in a biological warfare against the State of Ghana, and their use of mercury and other heavy-metal pollutants constitute a deployment of weapons of mass destruction against the nation-state and its people,\u201d the party said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The statement also urged Organised Labour to disregard the President\u2019s calls for more time to address the issue, emphasizing that he has failed to tackle the problem for nearly eight years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHis calls are only directed at getting more time for his party members to continue to perpetuate this and other heinous crimes against the people,\u201d it added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The statement noted that the PPP was proud of the actions taken by the Trades Union Congress and Organised Labour to stand up against what it described as \u201cstate capture and state-sponsored terrorism by a group of selfish, greedy, and unpatriotic Ghanaians.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
It further explained that the PPP\u2019s 10-Point Agenda, which included Free Compulsory Continuous Universal Education from Kindergarten to Senior High School and job creation for the youth, was essential for reducing the influx of new labour into galamsey and providing alternative job opportunities for the high number of unemployed youths.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need leadership at this critical time, and the PPP is wide awake to the leadership challenge and is fully prepared to lead Ghana away from this path of self-destruction,\u201d the statement indicated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI fully pledge, on my honour, and in the name of God and Country, to sign unconditionally and without hesitation the Anti-Galamsey Declaration sponsored by the TUC,\u201d it added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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