It’s been decades of a problem that seems not to go away anytime soon because both persons in the echelons of authority and the man or woman who has no idea where their next meal would come from are complicit in the crime.
The crime of polluting Ghana’s water bodies and filling the soils that grow the country’s foods with dangerous and hazardous metals from illegal gold mining, also called galamsey in Ghana.
In recent times, citizens have raised their voices for the government to end illegal mining and save future generations of the country and reduce the health impact of the ingestion and inhalation of poisonous heavy metals through food as a result of illegal mining and the substances like cyanide, mercury, zinc, among others in Ghana’s soils.
This is found especially in areas where these activities are rampant.
So the AGENDA team of TV3 visited communities in Atiwa West in Eastern Region to take food samples for examination. The items taken were cassava, plantain, garden eggs (eggplants) and pepper. These are daily items found in the meals of Ghanaians.
The items were then given to the Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies for tests on this foodstuff.
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