His Eminence Cardinal Peter Appiah Turkson, Chancellor, Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, Vatican, Rome has said urgent steps have to be taken to address the illegal small-scale mining (Galamseny) menace.
He expresses the view that Ghana risks becoming a failed state the the menace is not addressed immediately.
“If the status quo remains, Ghana risks becoming a failed state,” he told TV3’s Kemini Amanor on the Hot Issues on TV3 Sunday October 13.
He added “We need to develop alternative industries to support the youth. Poverty is a reason a lot of these people go into illegal mining.”
Earlier this week, the soldiers who have been deployed under the government’s “Operation Halt” initiative to fight against illegal small-scale mining destroyed 18 chanfans, 10 industrial water pumping machines, and one excavator in various illegal mining sites across Ghana.
This formed part of the government’s measures to tackle the illicit small-scale mining menace (Galamsemy.”
The President also directed the Ministry of the Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation together with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to suspend with immediate effect the enforcement of L.I 2462 on mining in forest reserves.
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