{"id":337425,"date":"2017-07-18T15:10:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T15:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=337425"},"modified":"2017-07-18T15:10:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T15:10:45","slug":"well-not-relent-in-galamsey-fight-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/well-not-relent-in-galamsey-fight-nana-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"We’ll not relent in galamsey fight – Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reiterated his government’s commitment to the fight against illegal mining activities in the country.<\/p>\n
A media-led campaign, spearheaded by Citi FM <\/strong><\/span><\/a>was taken up by the government who stepped up the campaign by initiating some measures to deal with the menace.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”ovqZIuI9FnKXqtmd4HbdDkXjTyVgEsua”]One such step was a 6-month ban on small-scale mining and a temporary halt on the issuance of new mining licences in order to allow the natural bodies, degraded by the activities of illegal miners to recover.<\/p>\n The sector Minister also recently ended a nationwide tour of some galamsey sites to ensure\u00a0compliance with his directive.<\/p>\n However, questions have been asked in recent times about whether the government\u00a0was losing steam following its initial efforts to combat galamsey.<\/p>\n A former Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Kwabena Mintah Akandor, suggested that the\u00a0efforts of the new government to address the problem have not yielded any significant results<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cMoving from one place to the other is not fighting galamsey, you are a minister, for how long can you be moving from one place to the other. For me, the approach is totally wrong. We don\u2019t fight galamsey with ultimatums and jumping from one place to the other. We fight galamsey with laws,\u201d he told\u00a0Citi News<\/strong><\/p>\n