The minister described how illegal miners diverted water courses, dug water beds with excavators from point to point while pouring chemicals into the remainder to polish their mineral finds.
They have so much polluted the water that the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has had to spend higher volumes of chemicals to treat it for human consumption.
River Birim, near Kibi, about 91 km north of Accra, is one of these major sources of potable water heavily polluted by illegal gold miners, known in local parlance as ‘Galamsey’ operators.
“When my team approached these illegal miners on Birim recently, they took to their heels as we advanced on them, but the sad part of the situation is that they returned the very next day after our operation to continue with their illegal activities,” Dauda lamented.
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