Can any Ghanaian go to China and cut down cocoa trees? Kwame A Plus fumes over Akufo-Addo's 'hypocritical' galamsey fight
Musician-turned-political activist Kwame Asare Obeng, popularly known as Kwame A Plus, has questioned the rationale behind the lackadaisical attitude the government is dealing with the canker of illegal mining or galamsey.
He accused government of allowing the canker at the peril of cocoa trees cut down to give way to foreigners in search of gold.
A Plus expressed these sentiments on the back of news that China is now exporting cocoa as a cash crop whilst cutting down cocoa trees in Ghana for galamsey, which is also destroying water bodies, farmlands and the cash crop.
“Just last week China exported cocoa beans and these Chinese people come to your country, cut down cocoa trees in search of gold, put dangerous chemicals in your water and your soil, your land, destroy it and go and plant cocoa in their country,” he said on TV3‘s New Day on Wednesday, April 21.
“Tell me one Ghanaian who can cut a cocoa tree in China and walk free. They will behead you. What kind of human beings are we?” he wondered.
Just last week news broke that China has begun exporting the cash crop to Europe, thus jumping into the competition to break the Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire duopoly of controlling 80 percent of the world’s cocoa exports.
Kwame A Plus has described Akufo-Addo's recent comment on galamsey fight as hypocritical. According to him, the President in the last four years in office vowed to fight the menace with the launch of the taskforce yet, the activities festered more.
“The ordinary people are not into galamsey anymore, it is the same Akufo-Addo government officials who are into galamsey and so what is this hypocrisy going on?” he stated.
---3news.com