Governance Lecturer at the Central University, Dr. Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah says the government should sanction security operatives to shoot people, albeit not fatal, who engage in illegal mining (galamsey).
Speaking on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' Thursday morning, Dr. Otchere-Ankrah believed if shoot-to-kill is considered too drastic an option, shooting illegal miners in the leg is a far more beneficial approach to ending galamsey.
He noted that seemingly treating galamseyers with kid gloves doesn't work, thus admonished the government to "use force . . . We can give 1,000 and over reasons why we can't do it. We can give all the reasons until we hold some people responsible".
"For me, I say they should shoot them in their legs. If you maim someone by shooting their legs off, he/she will lack the ability to engage in galamsey the next day," he added.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Shooting to kill the boys on site is not the solution to the problem. We must look for the real owners behind these small boys. The real owners live in the gated communities at east legon, trassaco, dzorwulu, cantonement and airport residential areas. Not forgetting the DCE's and MCE's and the chiefs and land owners and officials of the minerals commission and forestry commission. If we are serious about ending Galamsey these are the people we should be looking for and not the shooting and killing of the small boys