{"id":1223915,"date":"2022-10-13T20:17:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T20:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/13\/coalition-against-galamsey-urges-government-to-halt-all-small-scale-mining-activities-in-the-country\/"},"modified":"2022-10-13T20:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T20:17:55","slug":"coalition-against-galamsey-urges-government-to-halt-all-small-scale-mining-activities-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/13\/coalition-against-galamsey-urges-government-to-halt-all-small-scale-mining-activities-in-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition against \u2018galamsey\u2019 urges government to halt all small-scale mining activities in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The Media Coalition Against Galamsey (MCAG), has urged the government to order the cessation of all small-scale and surface mining activities in all parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a press statement issued by the Coalition, on October 13, 2022, it noted that small-scale and surface mining activities must be stopped so that water bodies and forest reserves will be restored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrder all small-scale and surface mining activities to stop IMMEDIATELY so that our water bodies and forests will begin to be restored and strategize a way to bring sanity to all surface mining activities in Ghana,\u201d the Coalition suggested.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"577\" height=\"459\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-10-13-at-19.51.00.jpeg\" alt=\"Coalition against \u2018galamsey\u2019 urges government to halt all small-scale mining activities in the country\" class=\"wp-image-10032187959 lazy\"  data- title=\"Coalition against \u2018galamsey\u2019 urges government to halt all small-scale mining activities in the country\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The Coalition further urged the government to amend and enforce the Minerals and Mining Act and to also arrest, investigate and prosecute persons suspected to be involved in the menace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnsure that the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703), as amended, is enforced without fear or favour. \u2018Powerful\u2019 people involved in Galamsey activities in the country should be exposed and sanctioned to serve as a deterrent.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"573\" height=\"511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-10-13-at-20.00.56.jpeg\" alt=\"Coalition against \u2018galamsey\u2019 urges government to halt all small-scale mining activities in the country\" class=\"wp-image-10032187961 lazy\"  data- title=\"Coalition against \u2018galamsey\u2019 urges government to halt all small-scale mining activities in the country\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Arrest, investigate and prosecute everyone involved in the illegality including the Akonta Mining Ltd and its Directors, Bernard Bosiako and Kwame Antwi, for illegally mining in the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve as well as breaching (Section 99(6) of the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703), as amended by mining very close along the banks of Tano River,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"579\" height=\"235\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-10-13-at-20.02.21.jpeg\" alt=\"Coalition against \u2018galamsey\u2019 urges government to halt all small-scale mining activities in the country\" class=\"wp-image-10032187962 lazy\"  data- title=\"Coalition against \u2018galamsey\u2019 urges government to halt all small-scale mining activities in the country\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The MCAG also called for any MCE\/DCE in whose areas of jurisdiction illegal mining has taken place and still continues based on evidence on the ground to be sacked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Media Coalition Against Galamsey (MCAG), has urged the government to order the cessation of all small-scale and surface mining activities in all parts of the country. In a press statement issued by the Coalition, on October 13, 2022, it noted that small-scale and surface mining activities must be stopped so that water bodies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1223917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3811,1791,1721,12861,1090,7522,3362,5154,985],"class_list":["post-1223915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-activities","tag-coalition","tag-country","tag-galamsey","tag-government","tag-halt","tag-mining","tag-smallscale","tag-urges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223915","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=1223915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}