Speaking to journalists in Parliament while assessing the performance of the NDC government in its first year in office, Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin said the withdrawal exposes a pattern of poor preparation and inconsistency. According to him, government officials attempted to push through an agreement they could not adequately justify, only to retreat when public and parliamentary pressure mounted. Afenyo-Markin said the government’s posture on the lithium agreement has been contradictory from the outset. They questioned why a government that claimed to believe in the agreement’s merits would be unable to proceed with open and credible justification. “This is how countries get short-changed,” the Minority warned, stressing that critical mineral agreements require discipline, coherence and a clear policy framework not trial and-error decision-making.

Source: GhanaWeb January 27, 2026 10:46 UTC