A netizen on Facebook, identified as Eric Abavare, has fired shots at President John Mahama for ignoring the galamsey fight for economic gains.
Eric Abavare accused John Mahama of abandoning his social contract to Ghanaians to root out galamsey.
In a Facebook post on September 18, 2025, the netizen identified as Eric Abavare wrote, “Dear Ghanaian, do you know that Ghanaians are 100% the root cause of the problems in Ghana? The Kwaku Ananse’s trick stories you imbibed during childhood are ingrained in our subconscious minds to be evil and liars? That the presidential candidate of NDC promised a cause and then reneged after being voted for? If someone lied for your vote through Kwaku Ananse’s scheme, is he a con person?
The conman didn’t know gold was the one commodity holding Ghana’s economy before the election and promised to root out galamsey?. He just blatantly ignored his so-called social contract and justified the galamsey menace”.
He added, “Did the conman say, because of gold, Ghana must burn to keep the economy going?. Listen to his own words.
My question to him is, what would be the essence of the existence of an economy if Ghanaians don’t exist?. What would posterity live on?
This is the man who thinks Ghana will not exist after tomorrow and has no plans for the future of this country. If he has any plans for posterity, his utterances would be different”.
The netizen added, “Unfortunately, Major Maxwell Mahama died painfully, and the 8-Officials died needlessly. We never learned anything from their deaths. Their deaths never served any lesson”.
Also, a brother of the late President, Prof. John Evans Atta-Mills, Cadman Atta-Mills, has said illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, is killing Ghanaians.
Cadman Atta Mills criticised the John Mahama-led NDC government over their poor handling of illegal mining.
According to Cadman Atta-Mills, he refuses to pay for the accolades the government is receiving for the cedi recovery at the expense of his health or life.
In a post on X, accompanied by a video of the galamsey menace, Cadman Mills wrote, “I refuse to pay for the accolades President Mahama and the NDC are receiving for the cedi’s recovery with my health or life.
Call it galamsey or ‘legal’ small-scale mining (when bankrolled by the politically connected). It is killing us. #StopGalamseyNow”, he added.
Additionally, the Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance, Joe Jackson, has said that Ghana’s gold could be blacklisted as blood gold.
Joe Jackson noted that if the world realises Ghana is not selling sustainable gold, the country could be blacklisted.
According to him, Goldbod, which was set up as a game changer, could fail if the Mahama government does not tackle illegal mining, locally known as galamsey, with the necessary urgency.
However, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, the Minister of State in charge of Government Communications and MP for Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese, has revealed that the John Mahama-led government will intensify their fight against galamsey.
According to Kwakye Ofosu, the military will be stationed permanently in 44 galamsey areas.
The minister highlighted that, unlike in the past administration, where security forces would conduct short-term operations before withdrawing, the military will be stationed permanently in the galamsey areas.
Speaking on Channel One TV’s Face to Face programme on Tuesday, September 16, Kwakye Ofosu stated, “All the 44 areas that are threatened by galamsey, there is going to be a permanent military presence”.
“In the past, they would go and flush out the characters engaged in galamsey and then leave, but now they will have a permanent military presence”.
He added, “All the rivers we have will have a permanent military presence”.
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