{"id":6764,"date":"2025-01-16T12:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T12:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/?p=6764"},"modified":"2025-01-16T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T13:15:48","slug":"halt-all-forms-of-small-scale-mining-immediately-constituencies-affected-by-galamsey-call-on-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/wp-admin\/halt-all-forms-of-small-scale-mining-immediately-constituencies-affected-by-galamsey-call-on-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"Constituencies affected by galamsey call on Mahama to issue directives against\u00a0galamsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6765\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6765\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6765\" src=\"https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250116-WA0004-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/wp-admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250116-WA0004-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/wp-admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250116-WA0004-1020x1024.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/wp-admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250116-WA0004-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/wp-admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250116-WA0004-768x771.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/wp-admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250116-WA0004-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/wp-admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250116-WA0004-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/wp-admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250116-WA0004-750x753.jpg 750w, https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/wp-admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250116-WA0004-1140x1144.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/newsguideafrica.com\/wp-admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250116-WA0004.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyei Kwadwo Yamoah,<br \/>Executive Director, HELP Foundation Africa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Residents in constituencies affected by illegal mining (galamsey) have called on the President, H.E John Dramani Mahama, to as a matter urgency halt all small scale mining activities in forest reserves and along water bodies in accordance to his 120 days social contract promise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a press statement signed by the Executive Director of HELP Foundation Africa, Kyei Kwadwo Yamoah, the residents reveals there is still mining activities on going currently in spite of the harmattan conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This has forced Ghana Water Company to stop water treatment and supply for public in some parts of Western Region since the sources of water have been heavily polluted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour Excellency, we respectively recommend that you make a bold Directive on \u2018Galamsey\u2019 to deter recalcitrant Illegal miners, who continue to degrade forest resources, cocoa farms and continue to pollute water bodies\u201d, the statement urged.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read statement below:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From Voices of Constituencies Affected by galamsey<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your Excellency, we acknowledge that in your first 120 Days Social Contract with the People of Ghana, you have promised to: \u201cBan illegal and new mining activities in forest reserves. Roll out our \u2018Tree for Life\u2019 and Blue Water Initiative\u2019 to heal and sustainably harness the environment by turning areas and water bodies degraded by illegal mining into economic and ecological recovery hubs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We commend you for this very good call, we are however concerned that though there is change in government, illegal mining activities are still ongoing unabated with the continuous destruction of forest, cocoa and farm farms and pollution of water resources in most parts of the country. We are also worried that the illegal mining menace may escalate if there is no directive to immediately halt all illegal mining activities now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your Excellency, we respectively recommend that you make a bold Directive on \u201cGalamsey\u201d to deter recalcitrant Illegal miners, who continue to degrade forest resources, cocoa farms and continue to pollute water bodies, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We also remind you Sir of your earlier commitment to:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Repeal the Environmental Protection (Mining in Forest Reserves) Regulation 2022 (L.I. 2462).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Enforce existing mining laws, investigate the allocation of mineral licenses in forest reserves and prosecute politically exposed persons and traditional leaders complicit in illegal mining.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Develop a comprehensive strategy to promote sound environmental governance, protecting our forests, rivers, and ecosystems for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We believe that a decentralized approach to enforcing the ban on illegal mining with a direct charge to the District Security Council (DISEC) and the Regional Security Council (REGSEC) may produce the desired results.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kyei Kwadwo Yamoah<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director<\/p>\n<p>HELP Foundation Africa<\/p>\n<p>For Constituencies Affected by Galamsey<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Residents in constituencies affected by illegal mining (galamsey) have called on the President, H.E John Dramani Mahama, to as a matter urgency halt all small scale mining activities in forest reserves and along water bodies in accordance to his 120 days social contract promise. &nbsp; In a press statement signed by the Executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,5,8,9],"tags":[1947,1661,1946],"class_list":{"0":"post-6764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-agric-and-environment","7":"category-tw-lifestyle","8":"category-minerals-and-energy","9":"category-news","10":"category-politics","11":"tag-help-foundation-africa","12":"tag-illegal-mining","13":"tag-kyei-kwadwo-yamoah"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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