Samson Lardy Anyenini –a legal practitioner and media personality has hit out at Mary Awusi—the CEO of Ghana Free Zones Authority, accusing her and her media host of knowingly peddling false propaganda against a church leader who actively confronted illegal mining.
Anyenini is not letting this one go quietly. The seasoned legal practitioner and broadcaster has come out swinging against Free Zone Authority Chief Executive Mary Awusi, following a controversy over claims that Apostle Eric Nyamekye of the Church of Pentecost remained silent on galamsey during the Akufo-Addo administration.
Anyenini flatly rejected that characterisation — and he is equally unimpressed with how Awusi has handled the fallout.
At the centre of Anyenini’s frustration is what he describes as a thoroughly inadequate response from the Free Zone Authority CEO after her original claim drew pushback. Rather than accepting that the characterisation of Apostle Nyamekye was inaccurate, Awusi issued what Anyenini dismisses as a “no-remorse, half-hearted apology” — the kind that acknowledges the controversy without genuinely reckoning with it.
For Anyenini, that is not good enough — particularly because, in his view, the facts were never in dispute to begin with.
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He argues that Apostle Nyamekye did not merely speak out against illegal mining from the pulpit. The church leader went further, physically leading fellow pastors to pray at active galamsey sites — a visible, on-the-ground act of protest that Anyenini insists made Awusi’s original claim not just inaccurate, but knowingly so.
Taking to Facebook, he wrote:
“Even CEO Mary, who pushed that false propaganda that Apostle Nyamekye was silent on galamsey under Akufo-Addo, issued a no‑remorse, half‑hearted apology. Do you think she and her enabler-host didn’t know this man did more than speak when he boldly led pastors to pray at galamsey sites? Soon, these shameless party propagandists will be forced to abandon their tired, lying guilt‑trip lines against critics.”
The language leaves little room for ambiguity. Anyenini does not frame Awusi’s comments as a misunderstanding or an honest mistake — he frames them as deliberate political messaging, designed to discredit voices that have been critical of how galamsey was handled under the previous government.
He extends that criticism to the media host who facilitated the claims, suggesting that both parties were aware of the facts and chose to ignore them in service of a partisan narrative.
In his telling, this is a broader pattern — what he calls a “guilt-trip” strategy deployed by party operatives to neutralise critics by questioning their consistency or sincerity. Apostle Nyamekye, he implies, became a convenient target precisely because of his moral authority.
The legal practitioner closed with a warning that doubles as a forecast. He predicts that the kind of narrative Awusi and her host (on Accra FM) have been pushing will not hold indefinitely — that scrutiny will eventually force such lines to be abandoned.
Whether that reckoning arrives on the timeline he envisions remains to be seen. But his intervention has ensured that, for now, the controversy around those claims remains very much alive.