Security consultant Richard Kumadoe has cautioned that Ghana’s fight against illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, cannot be resolved through political blame games.
Speaking on Citi FM’s The Big Issue on Saturday, September 13, Kumadoe warned that partisan rivalry between the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) only complicates efforts to find lasting solutions.
“When you bring in politics between NDC and NPP, we are not going to resolve it,” Kumadoe stressed.
He explained that rising tensions and public frustration over galamsey are being fuelled mainly by misinformation and miscommunication.
“When it comes to this whole issue about galamsey, there is a lot of miscommunication and misinformation around it, and that is what is heightening the tension and the emotions about it,” he said.
Kumadoe urged stakeholders to channel their energies into legal and procedural frameworks already in place, insisting that this is the only way to achieve meaningful progress.
“So let’s allow the standard procedures to be followed as is being ascribed now,” he added.
