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• Yaa 1 year ago

  What a shame..... The BBC used to be the gold standard for reporting but sadly you can't say the same today.
  
  That is what happens when you lose the expertise and knowledge that can get you the quality of reporting that mak ...
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  What a shame..... The BBC used to be the gold standard for reporting but sadly you can't say the same today.
  
  That is what happens when you lose the expertise and knowledge that can get you the quality of reporting that makes you the gold standard.
  
  There are 276 constituencies in Ghana, not 275.
  
  And to say that "the NPP says it is important to allow some small-scale miners to continue their work while the NDC is calling for much tougher regulation and restriction of new licenses" misrepresents the positions of the parties.
  
  The NPP has not said it is important to allow galamseyers to work: it wants to train small-scale miners and license them to operate cleanly and legally.
  
  As for the NDC side.... the BBC seems unaware of this, but until a few months ago the party was campaigning hard in Western parts of the country on a policy of "amnesty for all galamseyers". Illegal miners were being encouraged to think that the day after an NDC election victory they could return to digging, diverting water courses and pouring mercury into rivers.
  
  Does that match a picture of "much tougher regulation"?

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