The Member of Parliament for Wassa East, Hon. Agyei Mensah, has called on the government to set up new policies to regulate the operations of galamsey rather than taking strident measures to abolish it.
Hon. Agyei Mensah, who represents his constituents in parliament on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress stated on ATV’s Asem Yi Di Ka show that for some time, illegal mining (galamsey) has been the source of income for most Ghanaian youth
“The government should employ good tutors who will train these miners and educate them on pollution of rivers in our societies. The politicians and chiefs who engage in this illegal activity must be taken on by the security services. We need political direction”, he said.
He added that “if galamsey is regulated, it will reduce the rate of unemployed in the country“,
Source: ATV
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So this is the reason why NDC never talked about galamsy and our polluted water, this act must be abolished period, those land can be given to mining companies lie goldfields, newmont, maxmass,chirano and other mining factories to survey and build plant to start work there and rather employ those youth into their industry than allowing them to do the galamsey and destroy our lands and pollute our waters, lets think of our grandchildrens
Galamsey it self iS illegal word in our country due to the behavior of the people involved,especially authorized institutions who issue permits to galamsey operators and the operators at large. There is no way it can be regulated in Ghana so it must be abolished completely.