Minority’s representatives on parliament’s Mines and Energy committee have alleged that government have never been serious in saving the country’s lands from illegal mining practices.

According to them the NPP government led by H. E. Nana Addo Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo utterances of fighting galamsey have all been palpable lies.

Their statements follows the statement made by former minister for Environment, Science and Technology Prof Kwabena Frimpong Boateng.

The Former Environment, Science and Technology Minister, Prof Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, in an interview had stated that there are many top government officials engaged in illegal mining, popularly known as ‘galamsey’.

The renowned professor who served under President Akuffo-Addo during his first term, insists that the rot goes as high as the government seat, Jubilee House.

This comes as government continues to trumpet its commitment to the illegal mining fight.

In the interview with state broadcaster GBC, the former Minister explained that some of these individuals supervised his ousting from the Ministry in order to continue perpetuating the canker.

The ranking member Abdul- Rashid Hassan Pelpuo who led the address lament that in addition to borrowing irresponsibly to wreck the sanity of the economy government is impudently destroying our land with government officials brazenly taking active part in it.

He called on the government to investigate the allegations made by the Former Minister, with the expectation that government must desist from joining huge illegal migrants and the many unpatriotic Ghanaians from mining illegally on our land.

Deputy ranking member on the committee Hon. Suhuyini Allassan Sayibu said the president must constitute a committee to investigate the statement made by the former minister.

Source: Ghana/Sompaonline.com/Nana Yaa Kyeretwie