A Tax for Galamsey: Akwasi Acquah slams government for failing to punish complicit officials

Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament’s Local Government and Rural Development Committee, Alexander Akwasi Acquah, has questioned the government’s inability to make an example of public officials implicated in illegal mining (galamsey) activities.


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