Tag: May Day

President John Dramani Mahama, Thursday reiterated the Government’s commitment to combating the menace of illegal mining (galamsey). He said the fight against galamsey was a complex one and that when he was vying for the Presidency, he did not indicate that he would win that fight against galamsey in four months. “Yet we will not give up. Our gallant men of the Armed Forces and security services are up to the fight,” President Mahama stated in his address to Ghanaian workers at the National May Day Parade at the Blackstar Square in Accra. “And we will continue to score successes against the selfish companies and individuals, who are destroying our forest and polluting our water bodies. As far as the fight against galamsey is concerned, I say aluta continua.” Touching on some ma...