Their plea for forgiveness follows the Asantehene’s outburst suggesting there are active attempts from some people close to government to pitch him against the Akyems. Mahama’s galamsey commentFormer President John Mahama during NDC’s Unity Walk in Kumasi cautioned the Akufo-Addo government against the use of aggressive ways in fighting illegal mining as the deployment of a joint police and military task-force to rid the country of the illegal small-scale miners is counterproductive. He indicated that the government must make available a livelihood package for the sustenance of unlawful miners after leaving the illegal mining sites. “…it is true that if we don’t do something about it, it will destroy the environment. Because we’ve chased young people involved in illegal small-scale mining with soldiers in the past in this country but it didn’t work.”These and many other topical issues would dominate today’s discussion by the host and panellists on this week's edition of JoyNews' flagship current affairs program, NEWSFILE.

Source: GhanaWeb May 05, 2018 08:48 UTC