President Nana Akufo-Addo will leave Accra today [[Tuesday] for Togo to hold talks with his counterparts.
The visit, according to sources at the presidency, will focus on the pollution of some water bodies due to the activities of illegal miners in Ghana.
The President will from Togo head to Ivory Coast and Cameroon where he will hold similar talks with the Presidents of both countries.
The move by the President comes days after a powerful delegation from Ivory Coast called on President Akufo-Addo at the Flagstaff House to express concern about the constant pollution of some of their water bodies due to Galamsey activities in Ghana.
There has been intense pressure on government to end the illegal practice, and save water bodies and the environment from further destruction.
Currently, some water treatment plants in Ghana have been shut down due to the activities of illegal miners, which have rendered water bodies from which the plants harvest water for processing, useless.
Watchers of the sector have further warned that Ghana may soon be importing water from neighboring countries if the menace is not tackled.
The Galamsey menace has also led to the destruction of many farmlands, which serve as livelihood for a number of families.
It is on the back of these challenges that Citi FM launched its #StopGalamseyNow campaign to pressurize government to ensure that the activity is permanently banned.
Source: Citifmonline.com
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i thnk this issue goin around should stop because galamsay has cause many distraction's in our country apart from the water pollution it has also make some of our citizens homeless and i think President Nana Akuffo Addo should something serious about it either to bring a stop to that or to minimize it unless Ghana will surely import water from our neighbouring countries and when that happens it is only the richest who are going to survive and the poor will also die due this actions of the galamsay miner's City FM you be the best pf all Danquah Munufie Gideon A.K.A Wasty Techiman is where i rep
government must provide more works so these galamesey people's to get some to do else it can increase in robbery.most of the galamesey works didn't go to school, so the government must provide work that they can get some to do.
when we take a at the issue of gallamsay, the NPP gorvmt should go in ' for some stage but not completely avoided. others wise , they will broke Ghana, and loose in the next four year coming, there fore, government should better concentrat on his promises and not galamsay, bcos time wait for no man. same way NDc based their administration on issues of construction sector and it cost them loosea 2016elec. . . . .
if illegal, they should be punished.
pls presido,employ them before banned them.if the work is not there what will they do to live and besides the work is not even decent for a person to do but because of unemployment situation in the state. so find them work to do please please please find them work to do
We thank our president for the good work.
We thank our President Nana Addo for the good work done.In fact the Galamsey people are destroying the land as a result people are not getting land to farm,so it will disturb the generation.
You have send it all, I wonder if we had a government 8 years ago hmmm
Though the ban of the galamsay will affect more people and families, but we as Ghanaians should think of future and the Majority of the Population. Out neighbouring countries will be having issues with us because of the menace. Also these activities do not bring any meaningful into the GDP of the country. It should be banned permanently as it was in the early 1980. These got worse from 2008 coming. If the current change had NOT come I do not think NDC government CAN stop these activities. And sooner than latter Ghana will import water from Nigeria. Nigeria also have these minerals why their water bodies are intact.