Small scale miners president's reaction to Bawumia's millionaire promise

The President of the Association of Small-Scale Miners, Michael Kojo Preprah says members of the association were not convinced by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia's promise to better their living standards. 

Dr Bawumia who is the flag bearer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), as part of his campaign tour has pledged to make small-scale miners millionaires and multi-millionaires by allocating mining concessions to them if elected as President. 

However, in a radio interview on Accra based Citi FM on Friday [May 3, 2024], and reacting to Dr Bawumia's promise, the President of the association, Michael Kojo Preprah described the promise as a political gimmick geared towards soliciting votes. 

“I think he’s only trying to lie to us. We became very poor when this government came to power. That was when they placed the one-year ban on our sector. We were in this country when the government started burning excavators,” he said in the Citi FM interview. 

The President of the association, Michael Kojo Preprah lamented that Dr Bawumia did little to console or address the hardships small scale miners were facing during those times and as such, nothing he says now would convince them to rally behind him.