The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr. Eric Kwakye Darfuor, has insinuated that the palace of the overlord of the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area will soon be invaded by illegal miners with excavators in search of gold should illegal mining continue in the area.
According to the regional minister, the rate at which illegal miners have degraded lands and polluted the Birim River in Kibi, leading to complete shutdown of the Kibi Water Treatment Plant for about a month-and-a-half now, is very troubling.
Mr. Darfour, worried about the situation, told a gathering at the official opening of Highways Shell Fuel Filling Station in Koforidua-Abrewa-Nkwanta in the Eastern Region that he once told the Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori-Panin that if care was not taken his palace would be invaded by illegal miners, hence the need for all chiefs and Ghanaians to support the fight against the menace.
The minister said despite the environmental degradation by the illegal miners in Kibi, two chiefs in nearby communities Apapam and Adadietem, have been able to protect their lands from illegal mining, which shows that chiefs who are the custodians of the land could help preserve the land.
He explained that the fight against galamsey does not mean the government is against mining. He said the government wants mining to be done in environmentally accepted processes.
The chief of Aburi, Otubuor Gyan Kwasi, who was the chairman for the programme, advised chiefs and politicians who are behind the galamsey activities to desist from that to preserve and conserve the environment for future generations.
Source: Daily Heritage
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Osagyefo is not EPA or minerals commission. Do you pay tax to the okyenhene. It is the duty of the state to protect the environment not okyenhene. When your pple ***barred word*** in the sea do you blame your chiefs? Is it only in akyem kingdom that there is galamsey. Go to other regions and you will see worse things than that.you blame the king of akyem abuakwa because you hate him. I dare the one who says akyems are lazy to mention the name of his tribe n I will prove to him that his people are lazier than the akyem.For starters, akyems have the best Lawyers in ghana.UT bank and Databank are all akyem banks. Did I hear the person also insult fantes that they are lazy. Probably you have not met papa kwesi ndoum
and Maham said Kyebi is he home of galamsey and all took him on. God reigns
Well what is difference from what Mahama said about Kibi being the head quarters of galamasey.When things happen and no one will say ..AYOOO
the cheap and hungry okyehene is the brain behind galamsey from way back in the 80s and 90s.that is what all the akyem chiefs do for a leaving because,they are typical lazy people like the fantes and their women ca never stay with one man without cheating on him.i stay with akyems before so i know what am saying. the only thing their women love most is funeral and prostitution during those funerals,so the only thing they have been doing over four decades is galamsey or cheap tribal politics like akufo addo and atta kyea. the okyehene is a disgrace to his people and ghana as a whole since he has been doing this way back thinking the effects would be on other person but now see,on your on backyard. when we say akans are ***barred word*** and morons,you complain. even kennedy agyepong,that dirty man has been saying it.these akans are only interested in money and big cars that will destroy in no time.shame.
This Okyehene is a guru and a geat supporter of galamasey operations in Abuakwa ;Nana Addo should whip him into line because he is not above the law ; the man is a HYPOCRATE IN AND LIAR and claims to an enviromental supporter ; today the man will even kill his own mother and people to dig gold .
WHAT IS SOOO SPECIAL ABOUT OKYEHENE? IS HE NOT IN CHARGE OF MOST GALAMSEYS IN THE EASTERN REGION? WHEN WAS ACCUSE OF THE GALAMSEY HE KEPT QUIET. WHAT A SHAME TO HIM. tHEY SHOULD CONTINUE TO EVEN MINE ALL HIS PROPERTIES.SHAME UNTO HIM.