{"id":171720,"date":"2024-04-15T15:20:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/15\/7-die-in-galamsey-pits\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T15:20:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T15:20:09","slug":"7-die-in-galamsey-pits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/15\/7-die-in-galamsey-pits\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Die In Galamsey Pits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scores of uncovered pits left behind by illegal miners are posing serious threat to residents of some mining communities in the Nzema areas of the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p>About seven of the residents have recently fallen into the pits, leading to their untimely deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the deceased were from Nkroful, two were from\u00a0Anwia and one from Telekubokazo.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Elizabeth Allua Vaah, Executive Director of Ghana Environmental Advocacy\u00a0Group, revealed this at a press conference and sensitisation programme organised over the weekend by the group at Bankata in the Ellembelle District.<\/p>\n<p>It was on the theme: \u201cOur\u00a0Dying Rivers \u2013 An Uncertain Future,\u201d and was organised in conjunction with local environmental advocates in the Nzema area.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that irresponsible surface mining has destroyed the area\u2019s forests, land, and rivers and continues to pose an existential threat to the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have therefore brought the press here today to say to the world that enough is enough,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>She asserted that the people are drinking mercury and lead-contaminated water, as well as eating staple foods, fruits and fishes that have been contaminated with the poisonous metals.<\/p>\n<p>She bemoaned the current sorry state of rivers Ankobra, Birim, Broma, Butre, Offin, Pra, Subile and Tano among others, and called on all to join in their resolve to help curb the galamsey menace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, at Aiyinasi Sendu, Adjei Obeng Krom, Anwia, Abelebo, Egila Eshiem, Banso, Dadieso, and others, our lands are being poisoned by foreigners and Ghanaians fronting for foreigners,\u201d she disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>She said the increase in diseases associated with mercury, lead, arsenic, and cyanide poisoning was just a herald to what could befall the country\u2019s unborn generations.<\/p>\n<p>Madam Vaah attributed the decrease in the country\u2019s cocoa production partly to the activities of illegal miners, adding, \u201cAnd the little we have too could be contaminated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf our political leaders have let us down, we are appealing to our esteemed Nananom, who are the custodians of the land to intervene and help protect our forests, and water bodies,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Emmanuel Opoku,\u00a0Bankata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Scores of uncovered pits left behind by illegal miners are posing serious threat to residents of some mining communities in the Nzema areas of the Western Region. 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