Kwesi Pratt (L) Jnr says the government of Nana Akufo-Addo (R) failed in the fight against galamsey
Veteran journalist and Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has taken a swipe at the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) over the petition the party’s Members of Parliament submitted to the presidency on the menace of illegal small-scale mining, popularly known as galamsey.
In a post shared on X on Monday, July 28, 2025, Pratt Jnr expressed shock at the NPP over the fact that the party is making demands on galamsey and blaming the current government for the menace.
He asserted that the NPP, when it was in power, looked on while galamsey festered, destroying the country’s land and water bodies.
He indicated that former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who led the NPP for eight years, failed to fight galamsey after putting his presidency on the line, but today the same NPP wants to blame the seven-month-old National Democratic Congress (NDC) government led by President John Dramani Mahama for the menace.
“At the beginning of his tenure as President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, the candidate of the New Patriotic Party (#NPP), said he was ready to put his position on the line in the fight against illegal mining (galamsey). By the end of his presidency, #galamsey had virtually destroyed all or most water bodies in the country, and cocoa production had fallen by as much as 50% as a direct consequence of illegal mining.
“Less than seven months into the rule of the new administration headed by John Dramani Mahama, on July 24, 2025, Members of Parliament of the NPP presented a petition to the seat of government complaining about the slow pace of the fight against galamsey,” he wrote.
“They hold the Mahama administration responsible for the failure to uproot galamsey. Whaaaat? This is certainly very interesting,” he added.
View his post below:
#INTERESTING
The New Patriotic Party (#NPP) was in power for eight long years ending on January 7, 2025.At the beginning of his tenure as President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo), the candidate of the New Patriotic Party (#NPP) said he was ready to put his position on… pic.twitter.com/U0lUFsuAdj
— Kwesi Pratt Jnr. (@kwesiprattjr) July 27, 2025
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