The Ghana Coalition Against Galamsey has reechoed calls for the repeal of the Legislative Instrument 2462 mining law, which permits mining activities in forest reserves.
According to them, despite the government’s promise to annul the law, no concrete action has been taken after almost two months of governance.
Speaking to Citi News, on Wednesday, February 26, Kenneth Ashigbey, the convener of the coalition, emphasized that although the Attorney General, Dominic Ayine, who headed the Subsidiary Legislation Committee under the previous Akufo-Addo government, had pushed for its repeal, no substantive results have been seen.
“I talked about the fact that the L.I. 2462 law was bad and needed to be repealed. They even had MPs who were prepared to take the Private member bill to have it repealed. But since they came to power for about two months now, we have not seen any action of repealing it.” he stated
While acknowledging the government’s decision to repurpose seized galamsey equipment for the District Road Improvement Programme (DRIP), Ashigbey also urged the government to consider adding the burning of excavators as a measure to curb illegal mining activities.
“The president should lead the possibility of burning excavator as a form or one of the tools that the forestry commission would use that will also serve as a deteriorated for these criminals,” he mentioned.