{"id":167752,"date":"2014-03-02T16:30:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T16:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/mahama-should-operationalize-galamsey\/"},"modified":"2014-03-02T16:30:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T16:30:24","slug":"mahama-should-operationalize-galamsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/03\/02\/mahama-should-operationalize-galamsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama Should Operationalize Galamsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/004e909069973_460579.jpg\" border=\"1\" style=\"border:1px solid #999; padding:1px; margin-top:2px;\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">2012 Presidential Aspirant of the Ghana Freedom Party, Akua Donkor has implored President John Dramani Mahama to legalize the operations of galamsey in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, President John Mahama should encourage the citizenry to get into small-scale mining as part of his plans to create employment for the people of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>She advised the President to engage the illegal miners and make &#8220;galamsey&#8221; business (illegal small-scale mining) in the nation attractive to Ghanaians. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I wanted him to say (during his State of the Nation Address) was to legalize \u201cgalamsey\u201d business (small-scale mining) for the youngsters\u2026He should operationalize it for the youth to be gainful employed,&#8221; she said on <b>U-TV<\/b>&#8216;s &#8220;<b>Mid-day News<\/b>&#8221; on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The GFP Presidential candidate further disclosed that it was upon her counsel that President John Mahama expatriated Chinese illegal miners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told the President to repatriate the Chinese miners and he obeyed, and also honoured my request. True to his word, he flushed out all the Chinese miners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To her, the President made the move so as to give Ghanaians the upper hand in the mining field and so, added that it is about time the government authorizes the Ghanaian &#8216;illegal&#8217; miners to carry on with their work.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 Presidential Aspirant of the Ghana Freedom Party, Akua Donkor has implored President John&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}