{"id":321077,"date":"2017-05-20T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=321077"},"modified":"2017-05-20T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:03:17","slug":"committee-established-to-find-jobs-for-illegal-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/committee-established-to-find-jobs-for-illegal-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee established to find jobs for illegal miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced the setting up of a Committee to look at alternative livelihoods for persons who will be affected in the government\u2019s campaign to halt illegal mining also known as galamsey in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee which is chaired by Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, is expected to ensure the complete cessation of activities of the illegal miners.<\/p>\n<p>The committee, he added, will also implement to the letter government\u2019s strategy on combating the illegal mining menace.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;7Ime68OHGKakc6WOwkJuIqDw2Uvnl5On&#8221;]Analysts have predicted that if galamsey is not stopped, Ghana may soon be importing water because activities of illegal mining are polluting water bodies as well as farm lands.<\/p>\n<p>It is on the back of this that government has waged war on galamseyers.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing Ghanaian residents in Guinea as part of his tour of that country, the President said affected persons will not be left unattended to.<\/p>\n<p>60% of our water bodies in Ghana we are told have been polluted by mining activities. That is completely unacceptable. I made a decision that if God willing I was to win the election, I was going to make the fight against galamsey one of my priorities. And we are doing it. A whole cabinet committee has been established headed by a well eminent scientist and technologist, Prof. Frimpong Boateng.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akufo-Addo added that one of the committee\u2019s mandate is to recommend \u201calternative sources of livelihood for the people who are involved in this [galamsey] activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want people to respect the laws of our country and make sure that our environment does not suffer from mining and that is what we are going to do.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the President has left Guinea and is currently in Cape Verde.\u00a0 He is expected to return to Ghana on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced the setting up of a Committee to look at alternative livelihoods for persons who will be affected in the government\u2019s campaign to halt illegal mining also known as galamsey in the country. 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