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General News of Saturday, 20 April 2019<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n2019-04-20\n\n

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General News of Saturday, 20 April 2019<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n

2019-04-20<\/p>\n

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\"Dotseplay video<\/span>Mr Malor said President Akufo-Addo will be letting many Ghanaians down if he fails to end the menace<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Chief Editor of the UN News, Ben Dotse Malor, has called on the Akufo-Addo-led government to fulfil its promise to end illegal small scale mining otherwise known as galamsey.<\/p>\n

Mr Malor said President Akufo-Addo will be letting many Ghanaians down if his pledge to end the environmental menace even if it costs him the presidency becomes a mere a political talk.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe heard President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo say that he was launching a fight against this menace of galamsey and he will fight it to end, even if it costs him an election or elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think there is any Ghanaian…who did not support what the President said. But words must be matched with actions,\u201d he said Saturday on news analysis programme, Newsfile.<\/p>\n

The comments by the former Communications Advisor to former President John Mahama comes on the back of the backlash that has greeted Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo\u2019s, justification for government\u2019s discontinuation of a case against a notorious Chinese illegal miner.<\/p>\n

At a town hall meeting in the United States, Mr Osafo-Maafo sought to explain why Aisha Huang, known for her exploits in illegal mining was only deported after she was arrested by state authorities.<\/p>\n

A Ghanaian participant at the event wanted the government\u2019s justification for letting go of the woman known as \u201cGalamsey Queen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding to the questioner, the Senior Minister said Ghana has good diplomatic relationship with China and intends to partner the Asian country in key infrastructural projects, citing the $2 billion Sinohydro deal.<\/p>\n

That comment has been widely condemned, with some calling for the Senior Minister\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Joy FM\/MultiTV news analysis programme, Mr Malor noted that \u201cthe spirits of Ghanaians who have seen the damage being done agreed with the President [regarding his pledge to end illegal mining]. Many of us willed him on.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow\u2026we have just heard the Senior Minister, someone who has held several key portfolios in previous governments; someone with a lot of clouts saying that somebody can come from another country into Ghana, commit a crime, flout the rules and the laws of Ghana but for other economic considerations, we will let that person go.\u201d<\/p>\n

He cited the 2005 arrest and imprisonment of a Ghanaian Member of Parliament, Eric Amoateng, in the United States for drug trafficking as an example of a country where laws work. He wants Ghana to do the same.<\/p>\n

Chinese Ambassador is right<\/b><\/p>\n

Recently, the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Shi-Ting Wang, said Ghanaians must be blamed for the rise in illegal mining activities in Ghana.<\/p>\n

According to him, no Chinese knows the location to any of Ghana’s mining communities or reserve, saying it is Ghanaians who introduce them to the trade.<\/p>\n

The ambassador’s comments were in response to growing concerns about the activities of Chinese miners in Ghana’s mining communities.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cwe don\u2019t know where your gold is. We don\u2019t issue visas too for the Chinese people coming to Ghana. Ghanaians issue the visas. Ghanaians aid the Chinese to where they can find your gold.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are Chinese not doing illegal mining in South Africa where there is also a lot of gold…because they cannot do that there and the locals don\u2019t support such illegalities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wading into the Chinese Ambassador\u2019s comment that has since grabbed news headlines, Mr noted that the diplomat was being brutally honest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy should it take the Chinese ambassador to Ghana to tell us what we should ourselves be telling ourselves? Should we Ghanaians give this man a prize for brutal honesty in telling us where the problem lies?\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n

He said Mr Wang was \u201ccalling a spade a shovel. Not even a spade and it is a direct indictment on all of us\u2026you cannot fault the Chinese Ambassador. The problem is resting with every one of us Ghanaians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Galamsey menace<\/b><\/p>\n

Illegal mining activities in minerals-rich Ashanti, Western, Eastern, and parts of the Volta region have destroyed many areas of life.<\/p>\n

It has left in its wake environmental and ecological problems. Key water bodies and aquatic life have been dangerously destroyed.<\/p>\n

Some freshwater bodies, which served as intake points for the Ghana Water Company Limited, have been abandoned because the water bodies have either became impossible to treat, or are being treated at very a high cost due to the extent of chemical contamination.<\/p>\n

In 2017, President Akufo-Addo launched Operation Vanguard to boost the fight against the environmental menace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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