Communication Minister Sam Nartey George says President John Mahama has demonstrated the strongest political will yet in the fight against illegal mining by directing security services to investigate two of his own national executives over alleged involvement in galamsey. “President Mahama has been president for nine months now. But in the nine months, I can confidently say that I see a desire and a will to deal with galamsey that didn’t exist in the previous eight years,” Sam George said. “Meanwhile, under the previous president, you had a regional chairman talking to a minister saying that they must engage in galamsey because ‘party hiya sika’. You saw the tacit endorsement of the presidency then of party apparatchiks getting involved in galamsey,” he added.