Senior political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Legon, Prof. Ransford Gyampo has kicked against the meeting called by government to engage Organised Labour over their concerns on illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey.
According to him, there is no point in honouring the meeting when government has shown that it has no political will to address galamsey to prevent it from killing the citizenry.
“Just see below, water from Birim River as of yesterday 14th September, 2024. Yet they still have marshalled the guts to call Organized Labor to a meeting to talk about what???
“We won’t honour any invitation. The demands are simple. Government clearly has no political will to save or prevent all of us from dying. So we would fight to save ourselves,” Prof. Ransford Gyampo said in a post on Facebook.
Last week, Organised Labour issued a release demanding immediate action from government to stop illegal mining or it will embark on various industrial actions including a nationwide strike.
In his post on Sunday, Prof. Ransford Gyampo reiterated that what Organised Labour wants from government is a declaration of a state of emergency.
He said Organised Labour also wants government to place a moratorium on all mining, whether legal or illegal before any conversation will happen.
“There’s no need for any meeting. The message of Organized Labor is clear. Government has up to the end of this month to act, else we would shut down the entire public sector. It is that simple,” Prof. Ransford Gyampo said.
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It annoys me when my learned Professor acts below the belt as he does so mostly. Why is he only interested in negative news but has never offer useful suggestions ? What had you done in your small capacity as a lecturer: most of us know and hears the things you do even as an individual !!!! Do you know that, it is the civic responsibility of us all to stand for our nation ? And what makes you unhappy when the President is up for the way forward ? Politics has virtually turns you into something ...