About $48K needed to reclaim each of 5,500 hectares of galamsey land – Schandorf

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• Oversimplification 21 hours ago

  What an oversimplification! You level the land. Then what? When, if ever, will it regain its lost fertility?

  What an oversimplification! You level the land. Then what? When, if ever, will it regain its lost fertility?

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• Lands minister says the galamsey fight is a leisurely marathon! 21 hours ago

  Galamsey has been good for the minister. The ndc used it to win elections only to declare that the fight against galamsey is not a sprint but a leisurely marathon and that there’s no need to declare a state of emergency aft ...
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  Galamsey has been good for the minister. The ndc used it to win elections only to declare that the fight against galamsey is not a sprint but a leisurely marathon and that there’s no need to declare a state of emergency after all!
  So take your sweet time, minister!
  Most of that money will probably pass under the radar anyway!

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• Dr Mumbi Seraki 20 hours ago

  Hello youth of Ghana....... You can take your own life with medicine...........for instance 15 paracetamol at once........or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide...

  Hello youth of Ghana....... You can take your own life with medicine...........for instance 15 paracetamol at once........or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide...

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• Spio 19 hours ago

  Ok so the government wants to loot $264,000,000

  Ok so the government wants to loot $264,000,000

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• Common sense NO Common 18 hours ago

  You did the maths for us. Even when they planted trees and akunfem both the trees and akunfem flew to Burkina and nothing happened. At least mahama should have consulted a fetish priest to pour some libation for the trees to ...
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  You did the maths for us. Even when they planted trees and akunfem both the trees and akunfem flew to Burkina and nothing happened. At least mahama should have consulted a fetish priest to pour some libation for the trees to fly back

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• Nzema K 14 hours ago

  Another Nice smiling thief. See what's happening to Ofori Attah.. Ayoooo

  Another Nice smiling thief. See what's happening to Ofori Attah.. Ayoooo

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• Kweku 18 hours ago

  Ghana is a poor country and our leaders and politicians should not sit and allow some few and greedy individuals to destroy our forest reserves, farmlands and water bodies in the name of senseless gold mining activities for t ...
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  Ghana is a poor country and our leaders and politicians should not sit and allow some few and greedy individuals to destroy our forest reserves, farmlands and water bodies in the name of senseless gold mining activities for their pockets instead of stopping the destruction from the word go. There's no need to spend money to rehabilitate the degraded forests because we are not going to get back the original and complex forest ecosystems back. Our leaders and politicians have failed us because they don't understand the ecological and biological destruction of our forest reserves in Ghana.

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• Kwasi 14 hours ago

  Efficient management at the Galamsey Board can take care of this. The $214million losses at the Board could have reclaimed about 4,458 hectares out of the 5,500 hectares of this land. Anyway, government can and indeed, shoul ...
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  Efficient management at the Galamsey Board can take care of this. The $214million losses at the Board could have reclaimed about 4,458 hectares out of the 5,500 hectares of this land. Anyway, government can and indeed, should henceforth plan to finance the reclamation activities of galamsey lands from the Board’s revenues. Or levy the operators to finance the reclamation.

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• JULOR CAESAR 11 hours ago

  Instead of disturbing Ghanaians with news of arrests, the government should have an aggressive forfeiture program that seeks to seize the assets of galamsey operators, and the proceeds from those seizures can used towards rec ...
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  Instead of disturbing Ghanaians with news of arrests, the government should have an aggressive forfeiture program that seeks to seize the assets of galamsey operators, and the proceeds from those seizures can used towards reclaiming the lands that they destroyed or contaminated. The owners of galamsey pits usually have assets like houses, businesses and bank accounts that can be seized, but the government often only seizes excavators and thinks that it has accomplished a huge hit with those excavator seizures. The best deterrent against galamsey is the seizure of all known assets belong to the financiers and owners of galamsey operations.

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• THE LONE CRUSADER 8 hours ago

  MASSA! DONT YOU KNOW THEM INCLUDING THE CHINEESE AND THEIR KINGPIN aisha 1 AND HER CONVIINERS? LET THEM PAY THIS NONSENSES! MAHAMA'S BALLS SHOULD BE BEHELD FOR THIS IDIOTCY ALL BECAUSE OF $2BILLION FRUITLESS LOAN!HE SHOULDNT ...
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  MASSA! DONT YOU KNOW THEM INCLUDING THE CHINEESE AND THEIR KINGPIN aisha 1 AND HER CONVIINERS? LET THEM PAY THIS NONSENSES! MAHAMA'S BALLS SHOULD BE BEHELD FOR THIS IDIOTCY ALL BECAUSE OF $2BILLION FRUITLESS LOAN!HE SHOULDNT BE EXEMPTED FOR HIS GYIMIISEM,WAAOO!

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• Kofi Sam 7 hours ago

  Julor Caesar i am with you on this. Instead of burning excavators they should have ceased them earlier sold them together with properties acquired through galamsey and the proceeds used for this reclamation.

  Julor Caesar i am with you on this. Instead of burning excavators they should have ceased them earlier sold them together with properties acquired through galamsey and the proceeds used for this reclamation.

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