Ghana’s fight against illegal mining has seen both advancements and continued difficulties, according to GoldBod CEO Sammy Gyamfi.
“You are right, but you are not wholly right because there is also data that shows, with regards to certain water bodies, NTU levels or turbidity levels have improved.
“That is why I say we must analyse this holistically,” Gyamfi said, providing figures from the Water Resources Commission.
“You cannot fix an age-long problem in eight months.
“In eight years, you saw how a government deliberately promoted galamsey. Our social contract with the people of Ghana is a four-year social contract.
“We deserve the opportunity to fix the problem within the four years we’ve been given,” he said.
He also pointed to policy changes implemented under the current government.
“Under the old regime, it was lawful for people to be given licenses to go and mine in forest reserves.
Today, that has been cancelled. In eight months, not a single license has been given to anybody to go and engage in mining in the forest reserve,”
