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The Founder of the United Renaissance Party (URP), Charles Kofi Wayo, has reacted angrily to the killing of two Ghanaians by suspected Chinese small scale miners. Describing the situation as unfortunate and worrying, he questioned why the government and National Security would �sit down� unconcerned, while these Chinese take the lives of innocent Ghanaians. �They are killing my people, and you are talking about Peace. Peace my foot,� he charged. He, therefore, charged Ghanaians to resort to self defence as that was the only way �we can arrest the situation.� �You must stand up and defend yourself, because you have the right of self defence. The National Security and the government have a duty to protect the Ghanaian citizen, and if the government is showing that it cannot protect the Ghanaian citizen, the citizen has the right to take the law into his own hands and defend their children, family and lands,� he maintained in an interview with Time FM, an Obuasi-based radio station. When asked by the interviewer, Krobea Asante, on how the citizen could defend their lands, family and children, the URP founder replied, �We must kill them too.� �When you meet the Chinese, kill them too. You can�t come to my country and do that. We must defend our land; this is our home. You can�t come here and kill our people. For what! Why should that happen?� he queried. The Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703) prohibits foreigners from engaging in small-scale mining in the country. The act provides, in Section 83(a), that: �A licence for small-scale mining operation shall not be granted to a person unless that person is a citizen of Ghana.� However, some foreigners, with the help of local collaborators, have invaded the small-scale mining industry, in contravention of the law. Meanwhile, the Rt. Rev. Stephen R. Bosomtwe-Ayensu, Methodist Bishop of the Obuasi Diocese, has called on the government to consider the legalisation of illegal mining (galamsey) activities for the benefit of the youth in the country. The Bishop, who made the call at the 16th Annual Synod of the church, observed that the situation where foreigners, especially the Chinese, had taken the leadership positions in the business, though illegal, was not the best for the country and its youth.