Kwame Jantuah (L), Kwasi Kwarteng (R)
A former Spokesperson of the Ministry of Education and member of the NPP communication team, Kwasi Kwarteng, has clashed with legal practitioner and political analyst, Kwame Jantuah, on live TV over the government’s approach to combating illegal mining.
Contributing to the subject of illicit mining on GHOne TV, on April 23, 2025, Kwasi Kwarteng accused Kwame Jantuah of softening his stance on the fight against galamsey under the John Mahama-led administration.
“Don’t get it wrong, but Nana [Kwame] Jantuah has never represented the interest of the CPP before. He comes and sit here and represents the NDC. When I was coming here, someone texted me that it appears that these are two NDC panelists against one. He speaks in the interest of the NDC and represents the NDC,” he alleged.
The assertion was immediately countered by Kwame Jantuah but Kwasi Kwarteng insisted that his utterances give him away as a sympathiser of the NDC, rather than the CPP.
Kwarteng questioned Jantuah’s objectivity on the subject, demanding that he equally criticise the NDC government just as he did during the tenure of former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
“Let’s not make it appear as if he is giving some sort of objective view. He has never been objective. Nana Jantuah here, all of a sudden, has shifted from his medical stance. Before the [2024] elections, Nana Jantuah was the one who was consistently reminding us that people were giving birth to still birth and some children were born with defects.
“Now that the NDC is in power, you are changing your stance. Galamsey is not 8 years old. Even John Mahama failed in his first term. Now President Mahama is in power. Instead of looking into the guy’s face and telling him that it’s 3 months but how you’re treating the galamsey issue hasn’t really helped, you’re changing your stance. Instead of you telling him that if you take this tangent, you’re bound to fail – so, sit up – you’re not doing that but you’re dragging Akufo-Addo into it. Akufo-Addo will not come and fix galamsey for you,” he said.
He further told Kwame Jantuah to desist from citing the former president in his discourse on illegal mining, stressing that Mahama must take full responsibility to end the menace.
“You have said on this platform that Akufo-Addo has failed. What again do you need from him? Let him be! It is President Mahama’s fight, let him fix it. Since when did we make it [galamsey] a national fight? At every point, you made it an Akufo-Addo thing – now let John Mahama fix it,” he fumed.
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