{"id":1204716,"date":"2022-09-15T06:58:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T06:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/15\/government-must-halt-all-mining-to-fight-galamsey\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T06:58:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T06:58:06","slug":"government-must-halt-all-mining-to-fight-galamsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/15\/government-must-halt-all-mining-to-fight-galamsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Government must halt all mining to fight galamsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, believes the government must halt all mining in Ghana so illegal small-scale mining can be curbed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <em><strong>The Point of View<\/strong><\/em>, he argued that illegal miners had already declared war on Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President and Commander-in-Chief should deploy the Ghana Armed Forces\u2026 in full-blown war and let us end all mining,\u201d Mr. Ablakwa said.<\/p>\n<p>When all mining is halted, the MP said we can then \u201csee what kind of regime we will put in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further, defending the call for a moratorium on legal mining operations, he argued that \u201cwe should even be talking about nationalising our mineral resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only way is for everybody to know that there is no mining any longer,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The government did place a ban on small-scale mining in 2017 as part of its bid to fight illegal small-scale mining.<\/p>\n<p>The ban was lifted in December 2018 after over 1,300 small-scale miners were vetted and allowed to continue operations.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"nOQSJLiGivg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u2018Media has overhyped this small matter\u2019 \u2013 Aisha Huang\u2019s lawyer\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nOQSJLiGivg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, believes the government must halt all mining in Ghana so illegal small-scale mining can be curbed. Speaking on The Point of View, he argued that illegal miners had already declared war on Ghana. \u201cThe President and Commander-in-Chief should deploy the Ghana Armed Forces\u2026 in full-blown war and let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}