As Parliament resumed sitting today after the Easter break, Alhaji Yusif Sulemana, Member of Parliament for Bole Bamboi on the NDC ticket, launched a scathing attack on the previous NPP administration, accusing it of failing woefully in its fight against illegal mining.
“There was no leadership,” he told ABC News GH, insisting that the previous government’s approach to galamsey was ineffective due to poor governance.
Sulemana contrasted this with the current government’s resolve, promising that under the NDC, the country will “flash out galamseyers in the river bodies, flash out those in the forest reserves.”
The remarks come as MPs reconvene for the Second Meeting of the First Session of the Ninth Parliament, with legislative business including the controversial L.I 2462, which permits mining in forest reserves, set to dominate debate.
The Finance Minister is also expected to present the 2025 Mid-Year Budget Review in August. On another front, Sulemana urged his colleagues in the Minority to refrain from speculative statements regarding the 2,637 ECG-bound containers, saying the Minister of Energy, John Jinapor, would soon offer a full briefing.
This follows an earlier Minority press conference challenging government claims of retrieval, insisting the containers “were never missing in the first place.”
