By Alex Ababio
The National Concerned Small-Scale Miners Association of Ghana (NCSSMAG) has delivered 1,200 pickups to help the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama’s 2020 decisions crusade.
“We have submitted 1,000 200 (1,200) pickup vehicles at the full cost of the NCSSMAG to meet up with in any event 1,000,000 non-part Small Scale Miners at their different mining locales to offer to them the message of the NDC,” the Association said in Press Release copied to www ghanaian watch.com
As per NCSSMAG, the choice to energize behind NDC’s John Mahama was informed by the horrifying presentation of the decision party NPP and its flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the battle against illicit mining.
To guarantee a hundred percent vote from their individuals the nation over, the Small Scale Miners Association disclosed that it will visit in any event 1 million locales the nation over named “Activity VISIT 1 MILLION SITES”.
The Association proceeded with that, on the political decision day of December 7, it would likewise make accessible various vehicles and set up a team to help its individuals and their family units to go out in their numbers to decide in favor of the NDC to guarantee the triumph that would protect the mining area from the plundering under the Nana Addo-driven government.
In the assertion marked by the President of the Association, Michael Kwadwo Peprah he depicted the NPP’s years pronounced for the battle against all types of Small Scale mining as “two awful long stretches of the boycott” adding that the legislature delivered them miserable, burdened with obligations, broke their homes and sent huge numbers of its individuals to the grave.
Government Bans Small Scale Mining
In the early months of the year 2017 in the wake of being confirmed as President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufo-Addo battled against unlawful mining in the midst of the idea of recovering harmed normal assets of the nation particularly water bodies.
In reinforcing the battle, the Operation Vanguard, a taskforce which comprised of officials from the Ghana Police Service and the Military was shaped by the current government.
In any case, with every one of these endeavors by government, the little scope diggers have said the administration has neglected to check the danger.