"The scale [of illegal gold mining] is so vast, it is difficult to actually quantify," Brigadier General Daniel Mishio, chairman of Ghana's national security commission for lands and natural resources, who leads raids on illegal mines, told the Guardian.
"Apart from the security threat that is posed by the weapons that [illegal miners] wield, we even also have issues of human security. In certain areas, people don't even get clean drinking water, and in some areas you can see that most of the forest cover has been destroyed. This poses a very big danger to our future."
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