The first Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joe Osei Owusu, has said shooting illegal miners can be an effective way of dealing with the illegal mining menace.
The anti-galamsey task force, Operation Vanguard, recently expressed unhappiness about what it said was the courts leniency in dealing with illegal miners brought before them.
According to the Commander of the task force, Colonel Michael Amoah Ayisi, if the situation lingers, illegal miners and their financiers will be motivated to act with impunity.
The task force since its composition last year has arrested some 983 illegal miners, violating the government’s ban on small-scale mining. Twelve Chinese and four Burkinabes are among those arrested by the eight-month-old operation.
In an exclusive interview with Starr News’ Parliamentary Correspondent, Ibrahim Alhassan, Hon. Osei Owusu prescribed that the only viable way to clamp down on the menace is to be ruthless.
“The other time I said we should shoot people and people were not happy with that. [But] I still think that the way to deal with recalcitrant people is not to use the regular law system,” he proposed.
Blaming the communities for the unending menace, Mr. Osei Owusu said, “Many of them are complicit. They hide the perpetrators in the afternoon and they go in the night to go and destroy the water bodies.”
Source: starrfmonline.com
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Quote exactly what HE SAID. It was not a blanket, shoot galamsey. H said if you see a wicked person destroying our water bodies and rivers with 'chamfan shoot them. Water shortage is here!
Joe I thought u are wise heeeer ***barred word***
This minister is not serious.He should apologise for what he has said.shooting someone sons and daughters for mining illegally is not the solution to end galamsey.the best solution is to find work for those involve so that they can stop the galamsey. Is he aware that some of these galamsey people are university students and other tertiary students who are catering for themselves and have no option than to go into galamsey and get money for their fees. Our leaders are inhuman because they think of the natural resources more than the human resources because they want to satisfy they greedy desires. God should have mercy on this minister. He should be consider the people involve to be his family like would he say what he said? I want to ask to minister that the human and the natural resources which one is more important? Because of the land human being should be shoot, Oh my God let him receive the reward for what he has said.
This man is a complete ***barred word***. All these people are being paid as MPs and wasting GH money and resources. ***barred word*** MP ***barred word*** of a man. Go fuck yourself you ***barred word***
what at all is this? sometimes you hear people who're supposed to know better speak like this and there seem to be no hope for us.
the sefwe bekai wicked mp is going insane.how could you say this ***barred word*** mp? that ***barred word*** parliament should be closed down because,the ***barred word*** and morons there as mps are not thinking. you brought curse and economic hardship to the people and you still want to shoot these same people who brought you to power. just wait and see what happens to this incompetent npp government. village mp.
What should we do to Parliamentarians who are not able to make laws to provide us with jobs and are taking our taxes to feed their family's. I think they should be hang.
Lunatic!!!
I think joewise need medical attention he must resign or be sack for inciting the armies against our own confused youth because of unemployment situation we find ourselves in the country He can continue to be at post if shoot on sight is currently the NPP policy