The leadership of organised labour has denied claims that the government financially influenced them to suspend the anti-galamsey industrial action.
The group called off the strike which was intended to start on Thursday, October 10, after the government responded to their demands.
Following their announcement to back down, some critics accused the leadership of accepting a bribe from the government.
Responding to the development, King Ali Awudu, president of the Coalition of Concern Teachers (CCT) and a key member of organised labour, said the claims were baseless and unfounded.
He added that the group’s agitations yielded more positive results compared to other groups that joined in the fight against galamsey.
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“Whenever somebody is of a certain opinion and another has a dissenting opinion, the easy thing some people in this country would do is to accuse you of going to A or B. But mind you, so many organisations in this country have threatened to do certain things about galamsey, but the government never mind them, including the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
“Since December 2023, they have issued notices to the government to revoke the LI that allows mining in forest reserves, but the government has never minded them. Organised Labour comes in, and in less than a month, the government has issued the directives for the LI to be revoked. This is what we want. It is being achieved. Why do we go on strike?” he stated.
Meanwhile, the group has threatened to resume the strike if the government fails to implement the operational measures to curb illegal mining.