NPP Man resigns over assault for Asking Akufo Addo Galamsey Question

Solomon Owusu, the vocal anti-illegal mining advocate of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) based in Colorado-USA has resigned after he was assaulted for daring to question President Akufo Addo about his appointees’ involvement in illegal mining operations.

In a letter to the General Secretary of the party, Solomon Owusu said he was leaving “to concentrate on his family and mining profession.”

 Mr. Owusu has served in various leadership positions of the NPP including its youth wing, TESCON and in the diaspora.

He was last week violently hauled out of a hall at the Rutgers University in New York after he attempted to provide President Akufo Addo with evidence to allegations he has been making that the President’s appointees were involved in illegal mining operations-Galamsey.

Solomon Owusu, who had travelled from Colorado to New York to ask questions of the President during the President’s week-long visit to the United States last week.

Solomon Owusu had earlier revealed how Professor Frempong Boateng of the Science and Technology Ministry and some others such as Presidential Staffer Charles Cromwell Bissue were clandestinely involved with the Galamsey cartel. This was also partly confirmed in an undercover investigative documentary produced last year by ace investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.

The now-former member of the NPP said it would be conflicting to remain in the party since he has decided to criticise the government on matters that negatively affect Ghanaians.

Mr. Owusu is a Mining Engineer Based in the US. He says he has worked closely with the government’s anti-illegal mining taskforce and had encountered the rot involving officials.