The 2024 NPP flagbearer campaign Communications Director, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has slammed the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, for crying over illegal mining, commonly known as galamsey.
At a press conference on Monday, April 21, the minister, who also serves as the Member of Parliament for Ellembelle, was seen shedding tears after watching a documentary that highlighted the devastating impact of galamsey across parts of the country.
Reacting to this, Mr. Aboagye said whoever advised the minister to cry in public had “misdirected him,” insisting that he was appointed to solve the problem, not to weep about it.
Speaking on Accra-based Channel One TV on Tuesday, April 22, the NPP communicator argued that Mr. Armah-Kofi Buah, who previously criticised the Akufo-Addo government over the galamsey menace, now has the opportunity to act instead of getting emotional.
“I think that whoever advised the Honourable Minister to cry misdirected it. I mean, we didn’t vote for him to come and cry.
“This is a man that stood in Parliament and told the President to his face that, ‘Mr. President, you are everything that good governance is not,” he said.
He continued, “In fact, their Communications Minister said that if President Akufo-Addo was serious, he would end galamsey in one week. So now that you’ve been given the mandate to stop this thing, you come and cry? You’ve now come to join us in crying. What do we do?”
