The Kyekyewere incident is only the latest in a chain of fatal accidents involving illegal small-scale gold miners.
These incidents, the influx of illegal Chinese operators, the accelerating rate of pollution of water bodies and general environmental degradation by illegal small-scale miners/galamsey, the increasing incidents of confrontations between state security personnel and illegal miners and other issues have made small-scale gold mining one of the hottest topics in current public discussions.
It is appropriate that there is such a lively public interest in galamsey. In the view of the NCOM, however, these public discussions of as well as public policy toward the “galamsey problem” have tended to be fragmented and lacking the holistic understanding and approach required to deal with both the short- as well as the long-term issues posed by the explosive increase in activities of illegal small-scale gold miners.
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