Founder and leader of The Makers House Chapel International, Dr. Michael Boadi Nyamekye says prayer cannot solve the menace of illegal mining (galamsey).
“You don’t pray for somebody to get food when they are hungry. So if somebody is hungry you need to give them food, not prayer. You can’t go to the forest and pray that from today the boys should never come to the forest and stop mining, which is not going to happen,” he said.
According to the man of God, galamsey is prevailing because of the increasing unemployment in the country, leading to hunger amongst the youth.
“If the clerics have prayer to offer they should pray that God give the leadership ideas and wisdom to create more jobs and give solutions to societal problems so that people will not go back there,” Dr. Nyamekye stated on Starr Chat.
Dr. Boadi Nyamekye added that should the unemployment crisis in Ghana continue, the youth will go back to galamsey and further destroy the nation’s water bodies and forest reserves to survive.
