{"id":462760,"date":"2018-02-08T18:40:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/08\/galamsey-is-draining-the-government-of-energy-president\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T18:40:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:40:59","slug":"galamsey-is-draining-the-government-of-energy-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/08\/galamsey-is-draining-the-government-of-energy-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Galamsey is draining the government of energy \u2013 President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/63713719.295.jpg\" alt=\"Akufo Sona18\" title=\"Akufo Sona18\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President Akufo-Addo delivers the 2018 State of the Nation Address<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518115259_606_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">President Akufo-Addo has said that the illegal mining activities popularly known as galamsey has been a bane of the progress of the country&#8217;s water bodies.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the issue of &#8220;galamsey&#8221; has been fought by a very strong manpower.<\/p>\n<p>He further commended the men who have exerted the force in putting the illegal mining activities under control.<\/p>\n<p>He said &#8220;Desperate situations calls for desperate remedies, we cannot look on as our very existence as a country is found in jeopardy as our water bodies and land marks are destroyed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He also commended the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John peter Amewu for the tireless effort to curb the situation.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo passed the comments while addressing the Parliament in the State of the Nation Address, the second since he assumed office January last year.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo delivers the 2018 State of the Nation Address President Akufo-Addo has said that the illegal mining activities popularly known as galamsey has been a bane of the progress of the country&#8217;s water bodies. He said that the issue of &#8220;galamsey&#8221; has been fought by a very strong manpower. He further commended the men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":462761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}