Erastus Asare Donkor, an investigative and environmental journalist with Multimedia Group Limited, has taken aim at the government's handling of illegal mining, the practice Ghanaians call galamsey. In his view, the administration led by President John Mahama is repeating many of the same approaches the previous government under Akufo-Addo used. He frames the current effort as a rerun of mistakes from that earlier era rather than a fresh response to the problem.