Okyehene calls for a change in attitude towards Nature
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The Okyehene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has underscored the need for Ghanaians to respect nature to ensure their communities and traditional areas were clean and healthy.
“In the olden days, our mothers will wake up around 4:00 a.m., and sweep the compound; there was nothing like dumping of refuse into the gutters, and for that matter, our gutters were clean and tidy,” he recounted.
However, he said it was regrettable that Ghanaians had brushed aside these good values and were rather dumping refuse into gutters and polluting water bodies, lamenting that now there was no longer respect for the rule of law.
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The Deputy Majority Leader of Parliament, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, has cautioned that until we weed out galamsey from our forests and water bodies, Ghana will have to import water from neighboring countries.
Taking his turn on JoyNews’ PM Express hosted by Evans Mensah on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, the lawmaker indicated that as a country, until we root out illegal mining activities, we shall find it difficult getting water to drink in ten years to come.
“Evans, until we stop these galamsey activities, in ten years to come, we shall have no water to drink,” he stated.
The Effutu Member of Parliament(MP) who hitherto, was the board Chairman of the Ghana Water Company Limited stated that the activities of illegal miners have affected Ghana’s sources of water.