A member of the Legal and Communication teams of the opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC), Abraham Amaliba, has alleged that the National Women’s Organizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kate Gyamfua’s excavators were burned because she lambasted the Road and Highways Minister Kwasi Amoako-Atta for his arbitrary fixing of roads in his constituency.
This, Mr. Amaliba believes warranted the torching of her excavators by the Task Force but not that the President is indiscriminate in his fight against galamsey in the country.
He posited that if it is really about fighting the canker without discrimination, then he must do the needful to arrest and prosecute the ‘kingpins’ behind the act.
He made this allegation in an interview with Berla Mundi on the New Day show on TV3, Friday, May 28.
Mr. Amaliba was speaking on the back of the crusade against illegal small-scale mining(galamsey) by the ‘Operation Halt’ Task Force entering the fourth phase. And also his dissent with what he describes as the arbitrary burning of excavators by the Task Force which is not sanctioned by parliament or the Minerals and Mining Act to guarantee its legitimacy in law.
He said “you see, Kate Gyamfua has a problem internally within her own party when she criticized the Road Minister for developing roads in the Akyem area. Kate Gyamfua was out there criticizing the Road Minister for concentrating on roads in the Akyem Abuakwa area and neglecting even some of the Akyem areas. She is also from the Eastern Region and so Kate Gyamfua’s comments did not go down well with the so-called “Akyem Mafia” in the NPP”.
Source: 3News