Ghana: Impose Stiff Sentences On Galamsey Miners!

Actually, what the Government needs to do is to rigidly enforce the ban on illegal mining and severely punish scofflaws. For starters, the practice of “Galamsey” is a proscribed activity because unlike the traditional mining companies, these small-time and small-scale miners use technological methods that are decidedly substandard and relatively primitive, thus the constant and perennial danger that such activities pose to the actors involved. 
Asking the central government to protectively intervene in the activities of Galamsey operators would add an additional burden to an already woefully underequipped and understaffed Environmental Protection Agency
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