The New Patriotic Get together (NPP) has defended the integrity of Surroundings Minister Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng dismissing calls by the Minority in Parliament for his arrest and prosecution.
Communications Director of the NPP and MP for Adentan, Yaw Buabeng Asamoah, says Prof. Boateng’s position within the unlawful mining situation has been going arduous on these engaged within the act.
The Minority has referred to as for the arrest of the Surroundings Minister after he not too long ago disclosed that a lot of the excavators that had been seized from unlawful miners have vanished. However the Adentan MP says their name is preposterous.
In accordance with him, the straightforward undeniable fact that the Minister himself had blown the whistle on the lacking excavators reveals that his integrity continues to be intact.
About 500 excavators had been reported lacking.
“It can be crucial that we respect and notice that certainly a grave matter has occurred however that grave matter occurred as a result of Professor Frimpong Boateng himself raised it.
“It was not as if another person raised it for him. So Professor Frimpong Boateng’s integrity so far as that troublesome workplace is anxious to me is unbroken,” he mentioned.
In accordance with him, measures have been put in place to retrieve the lacking excavators and a few suspected culprits together with members of the ruling get together have been arrested to assist investigations into the matter.
“As we communicate, the excavators or a few of the excavators have been discovered. And past that, individuals have been arrested.
“It can be crucial that we respect the truth that individuals have been arrested and a few of these individuals who have been arrested embrace ruling get together members.”
Nevertheless, based on the Minority, these members of the ruling get together that had been arrested in reference to the lacking excavators are ‘small fishes’ within the political recreation and thus their arrest doesn’t sort out the difficulty at its roots.
The Communications Director of the NPP in the meantime says chasing after the scale of the ‘fish’ just isn’t the difficulty.
“Sadly, the minority can’t all the time have it their manner. They will’t decide the scale of the fish. The minority can’t decide who’s an enormous fish and who’s a small fish. Professor Frimpong Boateng has a mandate. The mandate is to maneuver our small scale mining trade from artisanal unlawful bases to artisanal authorized bases.”
He added, “the president’s promise was that he was going to guarantee that small scale mining was correctly legalized and controlled. It’s not a small matter. It’s as a result of there’s a issue on the bottom figuring out what’s authorized and unlawful.
“Wherever it’s authorized typically the strategies of operation and different issues create the impression that it’s unlawful, so Prof Frimpong Boateng has the unenviable activity of transferring this trade which helps Ghanaians, from illegality to legality. It’s a course of,” he mentioned.
Mr Buabeng Asamoah has additionally dismissed feedback in a tape circulating on social media linking the Surroundings Minister, NPP Chairman in Ashanti Area and NPP Normal Secretary to mining actions.
He says the Minister was solely facilitating authorized small scale mining and never unlawful mining and that these talked about within the tape have authorized concessions.
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