I Had To Be Brutally Honest With Prez Akufo-Addo – Prof Frimpong-Boateng | Politics

The previous Setting, Science, Know-how and Innovation Minister, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng has defined why he made sure disclosures in his current report on unlawful mining, popularly generally known as ‘galamsey’.

The previous Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Unlawful Mining (IMCIM) in his report cited some individuals in authorities who in line with him had been irritating authorities’s efforts to combat galamsey.

“All through our wrestle with illegalities within the small-scale mining sector, what baffled me was the overall disregard of the President’s dedication to defending the surroundings. I can state with none equivocation that many get together officers from the nationwide to the unit committee degree had their mates, PAs, brokers, kin, financiers, or kin engaged in unlawful mining. Most of them engaged Chinese language working for them.

“There are appointees within the Jubilee Home which can be doing or supporting unlawful mining or interfering with the combat in opposition to the menace,” elements of his report learn.

Some authorities communicators have nonetheless described the previous Minister as “bitter” and his report filled with hearsays.

In the meantime, a few of the individuals accused have denied any wrongdoing.

The famend cardiothoracic surgeon has nonetheless justified his motion.

Talking in a one-on-one interview on UTV, he defined: “The Chief of Workers requested me to write down the report and provides my suggestion to help the combat in opposition to galamsey and I needed to be sincere with the President. I can not simply write something; I needed to be brutally sincere with the President”

Hearken to him within the video beneath