Seasoned Journalist, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has expressed utter disgust over the activities of illegal miners in the country.
For the past weeks, galamsey or illegal mining has dominated the air waves. This is because, until illegal mining menace is fully tackled, the discussions won’t be over.
Successive governments have failed to stop the menace and although the fight is not over, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has pledged full commitment to make galamsey a thing of the past.
The President and his appointee, the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor say they will stop at nothing till this menace is dealt with.
Kwesi Pratt has supported the call to end illegal mining.
Giving reasons why illegal mining should be discontinued in the country, Mr. Pratt stated that, “now, our rivers have turned into ‘mpa mpa’. The thickness is like ‘mpa mpa’. You can’t use it to grow crops. It is undrinkable. You can’t use it to bath. In fact, there is nothing you can do with it’’.
Mr. Pratt encouraged the government and all Ghanaians to collectively fight against the menace.
He made these comments on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' program.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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The biggest hypocrite in this country. Where were you prior to 2016,was galamsey not rife then? And where were you when ndc aparachiks were campaigning in 2020 and claimed they will let them proceed with galamsey when ndc is voted in to power.
One of the political philosophy of the Umbrella Familie, the NPP, is the parties slogan of social intervention for tackling the huge unemployement amoung the Ghanaian youth and also as a way out to fight poverty in Ghana. On that basis, the Akufo - Addos led government had failed tackling the unemployement amoung the ghanaian youth, especially in the rural areas, hence the rise of the illegal mining " galamsey" in all parts of the country. All the various research conducted from the past and the present governments about the illigal mining "Galamsey" rooted unemployement of the youth as the main canker of the escalation of the galamsey in Ghana. In as much as Nana Akufo Addo with all his good intention of fighting galamsey in some parts of Ghana, his leadership government must pragmatically and willingness outline a programme of reintergration of these illigal mining youths for social jobs aound the country. Most of the big mining companies, who exploited the youth farmers and took their acres of lands to establish their mining companies, failed to compensation the youth farmers. Most of the mining companies even refused to give the rural folks clean drinking water and road network connecting to the villages. "It was pure exploitation and mans inhumanity to man." The lack of adequate contribution from the mining companies to resettle the youth farmers to alleviate their poverty of livelihood had resulted the rise of illigal mining as a new job for their income of livelihood. As much as the Akufo-Addos government is committed in the fight against the illigal minng in the country, I am also appealing to the various leadership to practicalised their social intervention (NPPs political philosophy) to bring joy and hope to the helpless youth whose jobs and income (the illigal mining) for their survival is been and will be taking away from them.