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  Kwesi Pratt has charged the security agencies in the country to assist the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, to curb galamsey activities in the country. The Minister, during a two-day National Consultative Dialogue on Small Scale Mining, cautioned against illegal mining stressing sanctions and penalties imposed by the Minerals and Mining (Amendment) Act, 2019 (Act 995) should be applied to all those who infringed the law, irrespective of political colour, socio-...

705 An elder of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Mr R. O. Frimpong-Manso, has called for the formation of an inter-party committee against illegal mining in the country. The inter-party committee, he said, should be under the chairmanship of the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Samuel Abu Jinapor, and meet intermittently to review the fight against illegal mining. In an interview with the Daily Graphic, Mr Frimpong-Manso explained that all political parties were complicit in on...

“For decades, Malawi has lacked patriotism.” Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has announced that he is set to make major reforms in the mining sector, including setting up of a government-owned mining company. In his special televised government policy national address at Mtunthama State Residence on Sunday, President Chakwera disclosed that the Malawi government plans to establish a Mining Regulatory Authority in order to reorganise the country’s mining industry. Chakwera announces new ...

  A Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress(NDC), Peter Boamah Otukonor, has asked the government to be more serious with the fight against galamsey activities  He wants the government to put in place pragmatic measures having decided to take up the galamsey fight once again. Speaking on Okay FMs Ade Akye Abia program, he advised the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to consult the NDC if they lack ideas and proposals to fight the galamsey menace. " When the NPP government want...

  A four-member delegation from the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources and the Minerals Commission has called on the Asantehene, Otumfou Osei Tutu II, in Kumasi to seek his support in the fight against illegal small-scale mining. The courtesy call was also to formally invite the Asantehene to the Regional Consultative Dialogue on Small-Scale Mining, slated for Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Kumasi and for the Ghana Green Project, which aims to plant five million trees on June 11. The delegat...

Galamsey fight: Soldiers destroy nine excavators, 127 changfans LISTEN APR 30, 2021 Nine excavators,127 chanfangs and one fuel pump have been destroyed by the military personnel dispatched by government to flush out illegal miners on Ghana’s water bodies. The exercise christened “Operation Halt” has also led to the arrest of some two Chinese nationals. Outlining the scope of work of the team, Minister of Defence, Mr. Dominic Nitiwul warned that the armed military men will take action ...

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called for a broad-based national consensus that would promote a responsible, viable, and environmentally sustainable small-scale mining industry. He said there was the need to address and stamp out the menace of illegal small-scale mining, otherwise known as “galamsey”, and support and grow responsible small-scale mining, devoid of the use of mercury, chanfans and excavators, and the involvement of fo...

Atik Mohammed has called on government to intensify the sanctions against illegal miners, particularly the foreigners involved. Illegal mining (galamsey) is a headache to the nation; for years, little has been done to end this menace. As part of President Nana Akufo-Addos measures to end the menace, two hundred (200) soldiers have been deployed with an instruction to remove all persons engaged in galamsey. A statement by the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah on Wednesday read in fu...

  Social commentator, Atik Mohammed has appealed to government to strengthen the Whistleblower Act to empower Ghanaians offer relevant information about illegal miners in the country. With an aim to end galamsey, the President has deployed 200 soldiers to mining communities. The soldiers are tasked to remove all illegal miners and protect the waterbodies, particularly River Pra in the Central and Western Regions. A statement by the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah on Wednesday rea...

  NPP Ashanti Regional Secretary, Sam Pyne has advised the Military personnel deployed to mining communities to remove illegal miners not to become corrupt. The President has ordered two hundred (200) soldiers to undertake an operation in the mining areas of Ghana. A statement issued by Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah read  in furtherance of the resolutions of the final communique, of the Stakeholder Dialogue on Small Scale Mining on April 14 -15, 2021 and to ensure that mining with...