Professor of Political Science on the College of Ghana and CEO of the Ghana Transport Authority, Prof Ransford Gyampo, has introduced that the College Lecturers Affiliation of Ghana (UTAG) will likely be assembly the Minister of Lands and Pure Sources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, to discuss efforts to combat illegal small-scale mining (galamsey).
Prof Gyampo burdened the urgency of the combat in opposition to galamsey, calling it “non-negotiable.”
UTAG Nationwide Executives will quickly summon the Minister for Lands and Pure Sources to transient us on authorities’s efforts to sort out the galamsey menace. The combat in opposition to galamsey is non-negotiable.
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Final yr, UTAG took a agency stance in opposition to unlawful mining, even threatening industrial motion except a state of emergency was declared to actively fight the menace.
Forward of the assembly, Convener of the Media Coalition Towards Galamsey, Ken Ashigbey urged the minister to chop funding sources for excavator purchases and publish an inventory of people importing excavators into the nation.
We have to lower the supply of funding for the acquisition of excavators getting used for unlawful mining. The identities of the homeowners of those excavators also needs to be made public so we are able to identify and disgrace them.
In line with Mr Ashigbey, this transfer would assist observe these concerned in galamsey by monitoring their purchases.
Authorities’s dedication to the combat
The Minister of Lands and Pure Sources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, just lately revealed that 44 of Ghana’s forest reserves are at present underneath attack by heavily armed illegal miners.
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In the meantime, Inspector Normal of Police (IGP) COP Christian Tetteh Yohuno has declared struggle on galamsey, pledging intensified efforts to fight the actions of unlawful miners.
