The managing Director of the Graphic Communications Group, Kenneth Ashigbey, has suggested to the government to place a ban on both alluvial and surface mining to save the environment from further deterioration.
According to him, though the government had shown signs of fighting galamsey (illegal mining) activities, the fight cannot be won whilst others have licenses to operate surface mining.
He argued that the mess that had been created as a result of surface mining overwhelms the benefits the country derives from its mineral resource excavation.
He charged the government to listen to public outcry against galamsey and that Ghana would become extinct if these illegal miners destroy all the water bodies and farmlands.
Speaking at the launch of a media coalition against galamsey in Accra yesterday, Mr. Asigbey blamed the menace of the failure of leadership to deal with the issue from the very onset, cautioning that if things continued the way it is going, Ghana would disappear from the earth’s surface in the near future.
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