Former Minority Chief Whip and Member of Parliament for Asawase, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, has dismissed the governing New Patriotic Party’s ambitious goal of securing over 80 percent of votes in the upcoming December election in the Ashanti Region, labelling it as unattainable.
Muntaka emphasised that the NPP’s poor performance in the Region will not go unnoticed, predicting repercussions at the polls.
Addressing reporters in Kumasi, Muntaka expressed scepticism about the NPP’s electoral prospects, questioning their ability to achieve such a high percentage amid visible challenges.
“With all the struggles that are so glaring, are you going to deny us from voting? Or how are you going to get the 85%? I heard somebody screaming about 85% and I said this guy is coming from some kind of place.
![“I think that the prosecution or the arrest should not only be on those that we find on the field. Those that we find on the field, when we get them, we need to find out who sends them there because these people that we meet, these illegal miners, sometimes you look at them and you realize that they cannot even afford to rent an excavator. “They [labourers] can’t even afford to buy about 100 litres of diesel, let alone gallons, to do the work. It means that there are some financiers behind them. There are some financiers somewhere. So if the law would permit us to look for who is behind, then we can easily get them and stop them from doing that.”](https://inghana.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/galamsey-750x375-1-336x220.jpg)
