The Director of Local Government, Decentralization and Rural Development at the Presidency, Dennis Miracles, has lambasted Ghanaians for pointing fingers at politicians, religious leaders and business moguls but themselves whenever the issue of galamsey is raised.
According to him, it is the same citizens who support the illegal miners to undertake their illegal activities in their communities, hence they too should be blamed for making galamsey a hard nut to crack.
"Have you ever seen residents in a mining area or community demonstrating against galamsey? Just give me one. With all the demonstrations going on, they demonstrate against bad roads, they demonstrate against hospitals; tell me one community you have gone to where you witnessed the Chiefs and the residents clad in red and wielding placards with inscription 'Say No To Galamsey' before?", he asked.
He admonished the residents in mining communities to take up the gauntlet and resist illegal mining activities in their areas.
Dennis Miracles made these submissions on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" programme while addressing the case involving the Chinese national at the center of recent discussions on the galamsey menace, Aisha Huang.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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so government always want to hit the streets and demonstrate before they act. when the residents are poor and not getting their fair share of the national cake you want them to demonstrate against their source of livelihood? what do you want them to do, solve problem and stop blaming the residents
The people know those indulging in these acts, hence the silence. They need to be told why their portable water is polluted
Send me any WhatsApp contact...and I will give you ONE
Our president is weak that is why all these are happening
Ghanaians are not patriotic. The same people who are destroying the river bodies with the galamsey activities are their family members they live with at the villages but they will never stop them. They want Akuffo Addo to come and tell those people to stop galamsey.
This one you have a good point. Ghaaians are hypocritical