The Presidential Candidate for the Alliance for Revolutionary Change, Alan Kwadwo Kyeremanten has stated emphatically that life sentence awaits galamseyers under is administration.
Speaking at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) encounter held on October 1, 2024, Alan Kyerematen stated, he proposed a life imprisonment as a more effective punishment to deter any illegal miner to engage in galamsey.
Alan stated, “Ghanaians, you need to get to the point where when you punish them, they will feel the impact of the punishment. If it is just a question of 10 years, the amount of money that they may be getting from galamsey, it will not be enough deterrent. They will go in for 10 years, come back, and continue. So, we have to be serious about how we deal with galamsey”.
He additional suggested a one-year ban on small and community mining saying, “Impose a complete ban for one year on small-scale, community mining, whether legal or illegal. Within one year we can clean all our river bodies… The introduction of new legislation and regulations will impose a complete ban on any form of mining in river bodies and forest reserves, with associated sanction regimes including life imprisonment for the violation of these new laws”.
Meanwhile, Alan has criticized the Akufo-Addo Bawumia administration burning of galamsey equipment as not a long-term solution describing the method as “ineffective and nonsensical”.
