Ghana Post Elections

  Former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof Kwabena Frimpong Boateng has named some top government officials as being engaged in the illegal mining canker, popularly known as ‘galamsey’. The renowned professor who served under President Akufo-Addo during his first term insisted that the rot goes as high as the government seat, Jubilee House. In a 36-page document written by Prof. Boateng addressed to the president, the Chief of Staff, and the police the renowned surgeon mentioned some individuals he claims frustrated his effort and the committee he chaired from addressing the canker. “Throughout our struggle with illegalities in the small-scale mining sector, what baffled me was the total disregard of the President’s commitment to protecting the environment. “I can state without any equivocation that many party officials from the national to the unit committee level had their friends, PAs, agents, relatives, financiers, or relatives engaged in illegal...

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) has called for the immediate resignation of Dr Peter Appiahene and Hajia Salima Ahmed Tijani from the Electoral Commission. Dr Appiahene and Ahmed Tijani were appointed by President Akufo-Addo to the  board of the Electoral Commission  in March 2023. The appointment of the two has  courted controversy  over their political affiliation with the ruling NPP. NDC Member of Parliament for Buem,  Kofi Adams  in an earlier interview with  Citi News  alleged that Dr Appiahene is an NPP activist who was a patron of the Tertiary Education Student Confederacy Network (TESCON) – a university wing of the NPP. Addressing a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, a leading member of CODEO, Rev. Dr Fred Degbey called for Dr Appiahene and Hajia Salima Tijani to resign to protect the cross-party trust in the commission. “We are painfully aware that voluntary and constitutionally grounded revocation of these unfor...