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Seasoned journalist, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr., has expressed utter disgust over the orders to the Military to burn mining equipment used in illegal gold mining.
According to him, instead of burning the excavators, those caught with the excavators must be penalized through prosecution and their excavators handed over to the Police.
This, he said, is the most lawful way of confronting the issue. It s mindless. It s lawless because this is a law-governed society. And if you make laws and feel the laws are impossible to implement, there is an option. Just amend the law but you don t make which I have here and actually let the law prevail but go out there to violate the law and it s a State institution or State actors who are engaged in that violation, that mindless, lawless action.
Government has with immediate effect dissolved “Operation Vanguard” which was dedicated to the fight against illegal gold mining menace.
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, reiterated this at the “Meet the Press” at the Ministry of Information on Tuesday, May 11, 2021.
The Minister stressed that no task force has been sanctioned to go after or harass illegal miners.
He, however, pledged the government’s commitment to resolving the menace, stressing no person or mining machinery is permitted along areas that have been earmarked as “red zones” and a 100-meter boundary.
The “red zones” and 100-meter boundary are areas where no person is allowed to undertake a mining activity, Hon. Jinapor explained.
Government has renewed its efforts to clamp down on illegal mining, with the military directed to destroy all excavators on site. Chairman of the National Association of Small Scale Miners, Alhaji Usman Musah, said six members of the Association were affected by the actions of the taskforce. Galamsey excavator Pulse Ghana
“They parked the machines in the house and the military came to the house to burn them. I can send you the videos right now,” he told TV3.
“You want to see the videos right now within seconds I can send you the video. We don’t know what is happening. They don’t say anything, they don’t ask anything, they don’t ask for document they used explosives to enter the house. They just throw the explosives and then they enter.”
I must admit that I have the greatest respect for the social pressure group OccupyGhana. Therefore, I do not find it unpalatable that OccupyGhana is currently attracting headlines by preaching that ldquo;Galamsey is illegal and it must not be fought with illegal means rdquo; But wait a minute: what ldquo;illegal means rdquo; is the Government using to fight galamsey? According to OccupyGhana, ldquo;there are clear laws stipulated in the Constitution, laying down sanctions and