Daryl Bosu, the Deputy Director of A Rocha Ghana has fired shots at the John Mahama-led NDC government over the illegal mining menace.
According to Daryl Bosu, the Mahama government appears clueless all of a sudden on the galamsey fight.
He noticed that the NDC in opposition were on the former Akufo-Addo government to do better in their fight against galamsey.
Speaking on CITI FM, Daryl Bosu stated, “Everybody was on the previous administration that the government must do better than they were doing already. But all of a sudden it appears they are clueless.
The Deputy Director of A Rocha Ghana noted that the Mahama government do not know what they are doing if you listen to some of the strategies they are putting forward.
“They don’t know what to do and if you listen to some of their strategies they are putting forward then you ask yourself, did they really have a strategy before they assumed office and I am sad to say that if you go to the ground they tell you that it has gotten worse and they don’t see any reprieve in the short term,” Daryl Bosu said.
Manasseh Azure has also criticized successive governments for showing bias in the fight against illegal mining (galamsey).
The journalist indicated that successive governments have chosen to be lenient with foreigners involved in galamsey, especially Chinese who destroy Ghana’s water bodies and land resources the most, while severely punishing Ghanaian illegal miners and those from other African countries.
According to Manasseh, the actions and inactions of governments are nothing short of racism being suffered by Ghanaians and Africans on their own continent.
Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah the lands minister has stated illegal miners commonly known as galamseyers must be seen as dangerous terrorists who are killing us.
The Lands minister noted that a few people cannot be allowed to make money at the expense of killing millions of Ghanaians.
Speaking at a Press conference on Thursday, April 3, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah stated, “We can’t allow few people to make money at the expense of millions of Ghanaians and kill us, we must now begin to see them as dangerous terrorists who are killing us”.
“You cannot have a country where your water systems are so polluted that the turbidity levels are 5,000 to 12,000 when it should be 500, it means we are drinking poison,” he bemoaned.
He further added, “If anybody wants to do genuine small-scale mining, this government is committed to guiding them, giving them licenses, and guiding them on the path of doing small-scale mining in a more responsible and sustainable manner,” he said.
“This is what must be a collective fight”, he added.
The Lands minister further revealed government plans to fight galamsey, he stated government will begin geotagging and geofencing excavators imported into Ghana.
“We believe that this programme of geotagging and geofencing must be expanded to include excavators as soon as they arrive at the ports. It doesn’t make any sense that the third most valuable item we import into this country, worth 6.2 billion cedis, is excavators,”
“These machines are brought here to destroy our forest reserves, pollute our water bodies, and harm our people. This must stop,” he stated boldly.
Meanwhile, some Ghanaians have been calling on the Mahama government to declare a state of emergency and suspend all mining activities across Ghana over the growing threat of illegal mining.
