Realising its effect on our quality of life, many Ghanaians are now showing concern that soils, rivers and streams across vast swathes of the Ghanaian countryside are being contaminated and poisoned by dangerous chemicals and heavy metals used by illegal gold miners, such as cyanide and mercury.
They are alarmed by the fact that the problem has become so dangerous that it has evolved to a point where well-armed men prepared to kill even soldiers of the Ghana Armed Forces, now guard land being mined for gold and logged illegally.
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