The Presidential Candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC)John Dramani Mahama has stated that his government will retrieve confiscated excavators and concessions belonging to small scale miners.
John Mahama said this when he addressed a durbar of chiefs and people of Agona Amenfi in the Amenfi Central district as part of his Western Region Tour.
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“They have sidelined those of us who do not belong to their party and not their relatives from the mining sector to go hungry to allow party faithful and DCEs to rather engage in the mining. This is not right at all. There are individuals whose excavators have been confiscated because they were accused of doing illegal small scale mining. These excavators are sadly later given to NPP supporters who eventually send them back to do same illegal small-scale mining.”
“What it simply means is that some people are seen not to be Ghanaians hence they are treated this way. That’s why I have said that when we win the elections, we will look everywhere for the confiscated excavators and return them to their rightful owners. We will also return all confiscated concessions that have been given to NPP party folks to their rightful owners. We will do this because all Ghanaians are humans. We owe this to Ghanaians because NDC is a party that hates selectiveness which Ghana’s independence declaration also rejects.”
