‘Pressure from all corners’<\/strong><\/p>\nAlhaji Fuseini noted that, when he started his campaign against illegal mining, which was to also involve the deportation of Chinese nationals involved in the canker, he received \u201ca lot of pressure from all corners.\u201d<\/p>\n
He recalled that the former Chinese Ambassador to Ghana at the time visited him several times in his office, to have him loosen his stance on the Chinese involved in illegal mining.<\/p>\n
According to Alhaji Fuseini, the Ambassador said the Chinese had been engaged in legitimate businesses, but had been lured into the illegality by Ghanaians and deserved some measure of leniency.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe [the Chinese Ambassador] came to try and convince me that the Chinese who were in Ghana doing small-scale mining were doing lawful business\u2026 he came to me to exact sympathy from me saying the Chinese have invested a lot in the small scale mining sector, they ought to be allowed to continue. But I said no,\u201d Alhaji Fuseini said.<\/p>\n
“He offered me a scholarship but I refused,” the former Minister also revealed<\/p>\n
Following his campaign, the former minister noted some changes in China’s relations with Ghana.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I started the operation to clean the small scale mining sector of illegalities, they reviewed the visa regime for Ghanaians\u2026 before you go to China, your application had to be sent to China before you got approval. It was also now difficult for government officials to immediately obtain visas to go to China.”<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople believe that was because of the fight and after the pressure, people started drawing my attention to those things.”<\/p>\n
Amewu shouldn’t have begged Chinese<\/strong><\/p>\nJohn Peter Amewu – Minister, Lands & Natural Resources<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOn Mr. Amewu’s apparent begging of the Chinese, to support the illegal mining fight, Alhaji Fuseini said all the current minister needs is the backing of the law.<\/p>\n
\u201c…no, you don\u2019t beg the Chinese. As a minister, you swear to uphold the laws of this country. Illegal small-scale mining is illegal. It violates the laws of this country and as a minister, if you swear on the laws, you have to use the cohesive power of the State,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n
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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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