A video has surfaced of a resident of Obuasi-Akaporiso blowing an alarm on galamsey activity around her home at night.
In a viral video, an excavator is seen busily operating at night from a distance from the resident’s home.
The netizen who blew the alarm stated, “Family look this is my house, and that is the galamsey site, right now, God come and save us”.
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.
Watch the video below:
A resident of Obuasi-Akaporiso has drawn attention to ongoing galamsey activity at night, just a short distance from her home, where an excavator is seen busily operating. pic.twitter.com/131W5V6BOi
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