The Big Issue<\/strong>.<\/p>\nThe Minister highlighted the problem the dual ownership of land played in enabling the canker and underscored the importance of local government in enforcing laws against illegal mining.<\/p>\n
\u201cLand which is the subject matter of the whole debacle has the problem of dual ownership as government owns the mineral resources on the ground. Chiefs own the surfaces rights. People go to the chief and take land and start mining.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNow you need the chiefs to come in. Every land is within a jurisdiction of a metropolitan, municipal or district assembly. You need the local government to be part of the thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Illegal mining has come to the fore in the past month following\u00a0the shutdown of the Kyebi treatment plant and the threat of same to other treatment plants.<\/p>\n
This is due to the galamsey-related pollution of the major sources of water for consumption in the Rivers Pra, Ankobra, Birim, Tano among others.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement can’t do it all<\/strong><\/p>\nInusah Fuseini, erstwhile the head of an anti-galamsey taskforce, admitted that the use of police and military as the first line of law enforcement to combat illegal mining and its effects could only go so far as they \u201ccould not be on the sites 24 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hence, \u201cyou need a sustainable system to fight galamsey and that is what I think government\u2019s attention must be turned to,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n
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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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