The Member of Parliament for Tamale North, Alhassan Suhuyini, has slammed the medias effort to end galamsey, saying they are being hypocritical because they did not lend the same level of support to former president John Mahama when he wanted to end galamsey.

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The coalition include the Graphic Communications Group Limited, the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA), the Ghanaian Times, the Ghana Journalists Association, the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and the Christian Council and PRIMPAG.

Speaking on Radio Gold's "Alhaji and Alhaji" programme Saturday, the controversial Tamale North MP said: “I know media men and I am comfortable to refer to them as colleagues who in the past said when their support was needed to champion national courses that it was not their business, and that a government was elected to carry out reforms that will change the lives of the people and the country for better and that is why it has PRs and Communication officers and Ministers to do the job of rallying people together for national courses and it wasn’t their business to say anything positive about the government and these are senior journalist that some of us in the profession looked up to."

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He continued: "They were of the view that people were paid to do such activities and they were to hold the government accountable and put it on its toes. Today, I see them championing this course and I smile even as I admire the fight but I smile, I smile at that hypocrisy, I smile at their deception and disdain that they show other political parties when they are in power and forget about the nationhood that we should protect at every time.”