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 foreign nationals, to protect Ghana’s forest, environment and water bodies. The President made the call when he opened the National Consultative Dialogue on Small-scale mining in Accra on Wednesday.