The Minority in Parliament wants a probe into the outrageous statements made by the former minister of environment, science, technology, and innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng.
The former Minister admitted in an interview that some members of the ruling administration are participating in illegal mining and that his own party and other government officials implicated in the galamsey were using the reported missing excavator tale against him to force him out of office.
Dr. Rashid Pelpuo, Parliament’s Ranking Member on the Lands and Forestry Committee, told journalists that the allegations are grave and must be probed.
“We have reports of key government officials being key galamsey operators involved in destroying lands in forest reserves. We wish to call on the government to investigate the allegations made by the forever Minister of Environment. It is also our expectation that government must desist from joining illegal immigrants engaged in galamsey because today, most of the lands destroyed have not been restored.”
