It's been a busy week in Ghana as the Ghanaian media and people tried to make sense of the story of Aisha "En" Huang's return to Ghana.
The coincidence of this phenomenon with our and A Rocha Ghana's joint petition to the Attorney General and four others to account for missing foreign nationals convicted of breaking our mining laws in Ghanaian prisons brought a lot of media interest in our petition.
Within the same time comedy of errors that is the story of Galamsey in Ellembelle also played out. We continue to unravel the mystery of missing excavators that were being used to mine the grounds of Nkroful Agricultural Secondary School (NASS) right in the middle of the community of Nkroful. This is in spite of the fact that pits dug over two years ago are still open today, filled with mercury and cyanide and continue to pose risk to students and others.
It is why I'm glad that the Minority Leader and Hon MP for Tamale South, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, has promised to raise the questions we have asked in our petition in Parliament in early October to seek answers from the Minister for the Interior.
The people of Ghana, especially those in the mining communities, are counting on the diligence of our institutions to live up to the task. We cannot, and must not continue to disappoint them.