A member of the Ghana Coalition Against Galamsey, Senyo Hosi, has asked the National Security Minister, Albert Kan Dapaah, to resign from his position over the ongoing illegal mining also known as ‘galamsey’.
As a Minister in charge of National Security, Mr. Hosi says it is unconscionable to sit aloof whilst heavy duty equipment are transported to galamsey sites to engage in illegality.
He says the Minister is supposed to know how those equipment are transported to the forest reserves and water bodies to destroy and get them polluted respectively.
Speaking on the KeyPoints on TV3 Saturday, Mr. Hosi questioned the logic behind the conveyance of such heavy duty earth moving equipment to such areas at the blind side of the National Security.
“The excavators, how do they get there, do they fly? The mercury, how do they get there? You want to tell me that after all these the National Security Minister wants to tell me that he doesn’t know the real people behind galamsey? We are a joke, he should resign,” he fumed.
He added that the perpetuation of galamsey in the country is something the government has decided not to care because the powers that be know the forces behind it.
He called on the Minister to call those financing the illegality and bring them to book to bring finality to the canker since he is not oblivious of the financiers.
“If you want to deal with the matter go and deal with the matter. You know the people behind it, summon them,” he added.
Mr. Hosi’s comments follow the recent deployment of the military –Operation Halt –to galamsey sites to stop the operations of illegal miners.
According to the leader of the operation, their current mandate is stop those on the water bodies, before they focus their attention on the forest reserves.
This, is what Mr. Hosi says smacks of the government’s unwillingness to fight the canker.
He asserts the government would have deployed more Companies and spread them across the various water bodies that are being polluted as well as the forest reservesif indeed it was serious in curbing the menace.
