{"id":400257,"date":"2017-07-12T11:07:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T11:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/12\/galamsey-fight-wont-be-complete-without-review-of-mining-laws-kwesi-pratt\/"},"modified":"2017-07-12T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T11:07:16","slug":"galamsey-fight-wont-be-complete-without-review-of-mining-laws-kwesi-pratt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/12\/galamsey-fight-wont-be-complete-without-review-of-mining-laws-kwesi-pratt\/","title":{"rendered":"Galamsey fight won&#8217;t be complete without review of mining laws &#8211; Kwesi Pratt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 12 July 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>peacefmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-07-12<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/74482357.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kwesi Pratt Shout\" title=\"Kwesi Pratt Shout\" width=\"295\" height=\"271\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kwesi Pratt Jnr., Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385127052\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385127052\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1499857636_560_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Kwesi Pratt Jnr., Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, has called on government to review the laws governing the country&#8217;s mining sector.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on &#8216;Kokrokoo&#8217; on Peace FM, Kwesi Pratt noted that the fight against illegal mining won&#8217;t be complete without the mining laws reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Pratt, addressing the illegal mining (galamsey) menace bemoaned the activities of the miners who he stressed are destroying the water bodies in the mining communities.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, one of the difficulties in dealing with the galamsey operators is because the provisions of the laws are in it problematic.<\/p>\n<p>He quoted portions of the mining laws, saying it allows the concessionaires &#8220;to take control of surface and underground water resources in the concession . . . It gives you permission to divert rivers, the mining law; to divert the course of rivers, to take control of surface and underground water. How? Why should it be?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Pratt said if the concessionaires are given the right to, for instance, divert the rivers, the downstream communities will be majorly affected; hence the &#8220;mining law needs to be reviewed. 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