WE WILL END GALAMSEY ONCE AND FOR ALL – HON. PETER AMEWU

Hon. Peter John Amewu, Minister of Lands and Resources said, the country most devastated activities of illegal mining, euphemistically referred to as galamsey, says the operation should be legalized. “NPP will end galamsey once and for all”, he said.

“One sure way to deal with the galamsey menace is first to legalize the operation; put them into groups and license them. We can assign people to monitor them to ensure that they conform to all the laid down rules,” Hon. Amewu told Captain Kofi Owusu on Radio1.

Hon. John Peter Amewu is a Cost Engineer with more than 15years experience in Government, Private Sector, Civil Society and International Development; and currently the Alumni Vice Chair for the Ghana Chapter of the International Mining for Development Centre.

In plain language, Hon. Amewu is asking for the gradual extinction of Ghana as an entity. Galamsey is a very terrible killer and should be abolished, period!

“Captain, the extent of gallamsey destroying our water bodies and land is alarming, and if we do not protect them, we will have no water in the future”, he stated.

According to him we have to value our land and water bodies more than the gold. He also stated that galamsey is going to be legalize and guided by law, anyone who goes against the law will be dealt with.

The findings are as shocking as they are sickening. The activities of galamsey operators have so contaminated water bodies in the country and it has virtually led to rationing of water bodies in galamsey surrounding areas.

Do you know that our so-called illiterate ancestors, who some people had the temerity to characterize as ‘primitive’, had wisdom to admonish that: “If you rear a tiger puppy it may grow up to devour you?”

Ghana is Africa’s second largest gold producer after South Africa. But several research projects suggest that ‘galamsey’ (illegal gold mining) has affected the country’s environment and poses a great danger to our rural dwelling brothers and sisters.

Source:radiooneghana.com/Agyapong Michael