Emerging developments, and they are myriad, are exposing the integrity blemishes in which government of the NDC is embroiled since its assumption of the leadership of the country.
With unalloyed instances presented to them to prove their much-touted voice of so-called integrity when they were in opposition they are fleeing from these.
Last week ended with a blockade of the Minority’s demand for a probe into the GoldBod losses. Who runs away from such a golden opportunity to clear their stained image?
From the mining industry to losses said to have been incurred in GoldBod operations the list is seemingly endlessly.
The direction the NDC administration is going is not in doubt…they would do whatever it takes not to allow public scrutiny of their stewardship, through Parliament to take place. Mark our words.
One thing which is as constant as the North Star is…truth shall out day. It is only a matter of time and those behind efforts at keeping the facts under the carpet know. History is laden with motley of the disastrous end of efforts at managing lies by governments.
Even Adolf Hitler’s Goebbels’s state-funded and managed propaganda department ended at a point in time including the Third Reich itself.
The ongoing Damang Mining brouhaha is one of the many integrity challenges facing the government try as it has to skew it.
Managing untruth is a difficult enterprise and would demand consistency which nature has a way of denying those behind the propaganda.
We recall how the media space was largely engaged to present a story that would absolve the government from wrongdoing in the matter of the acquisition of the gold concession referred to in the earlier paragraph.
How come the Damang Gold concession which received the Akufo-Addo nod before this government’s inception is now being put up for competitive tendering?
The story has witnessed a deliberate skewing to achieve broad support from Ghanaians but unfortunately not all citizens and observers of the happenings will persistently be fooled by the glitters of PR gimmicks.
Nobody is questioning the sense in having Ghanaians own the natural resources of the state. These by law have been entrusted into the trust of the President who must abide by laid-down ethical standards to administer.
A situation where the President’s brother an interested party in the acquisition of the Damang Mines lets out his private jet for the use of the man responsible for okaying such a deal cannot be said to be bereft of cobwebs.
All of a sudden there is an announcement about the opening of a tender for the acquisition of the concession in question even as equipment of the E&P machinery have already taken position at the location. Even the Dzata logo is said to have already been inscribed on the concession’s property.
A March 24 2026 originating from Lands and Mineral Resources Minister Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah speaks about government initiation of process to ensure that jobs are protected and contractors maintained. E&P is a major service provider to the departing concession owners who has showed interest in the acquisition of the vacant space. Your guess is as good as ours about the opaqueness surrounding the process. It is a done deal.
Minerals governance is one which attracts international attention for good reasons one of which is the possibility of transactions thereof shrouded in underhand dealings.
E&P the President’s own local mining giant is as qualified as many others in the country. All we are saying is that let there be transparency and not opaqueness. Tomorrow is pregnant and every deal done with disregard to ethics will be challenged on the day of reckoning.
