Government bans mining around water bodies

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• OSEI KWAME 8 years ago

  THE GAINS FROM MINING DOES NOT COMMENSURATE THE ETERNAL DAMAGE THAT IS DONE TO OUR ECOLOGY AND THE WHOLE ENVIRONMENT IN GHANA. IT IS LIKE USING CEDIS TO BUY PESEWAS. LET'S THINK FAR GHANAIANS. WHAT DID OBUASI GAIN FROM MINING ...
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  THE GAINS FROM MINING DOES NOT COMMENSURATE THE ETERNAL DAMAGE THAT IS DONE TO OUR ECOLOGY AND THE WHOLE ENVIRONMENT IN GHANA. IT IS LIKE USING CEDIS TO BUY PESEWAS. LET'S THINK FAR GHANAIANS. WHAT DID OBUASI GAIN FROM MINING? LET'S HONESTLY JUDGE OBUASI WITH ALL THE NAMES AND ACCOLADES IT GAINED FROM MINING. WHAT DO WE NOW HAVE AT OBUASI? LET'S THINK, GHANAIANS. THIS IS GHANA NOT NDC OR NPP PROBLEM.

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• PATRIOT 8 years ago

  Obuasi is still as it was when mining started there.No progress.Obuasi is still in the stone age era.No good schools,no good roads,no better housing facilities for mine workers,etc,etc.It is a pathetic,polluted town.What has ...
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  Obuasi is still as it was when mining started there.No progress.Obuasi is still in the stone age era.No good schools,no good roads,no better housing facilities for mine workers,etc,etc.It is a pathetic,polluted town.What has the nation gained from galamsey in relation to the damage it has caused to the nation?The destruction of the country is the answer.

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• DANIEL OSEI PREMPEH,NEWARK,NJ 8 years ago

  Is NPP government afraid to ban galamsey all over the land and not only around water bodies.Ban the Fulani herdsmen and their cattle too.If needs be use guns too like they do.Ghanaians are more important than WONTUMI.Akuffo A ...
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  Is NPP government afraid to ban galamsey all over the land and not only around water bodies.Ban the Fulani herdsmen and their cattle too.If needs be use guns too like they do.Ghanaians are more important than WONTUMI.Akuffo Addo, is Wontumi more important than Ghanains?

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• Stormborn 8 years ago

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  Hey dude or babe. What's good? 4 whole months gone! 4 months!!! If you can, why not? If I told U each 5 mins, U have the potential to pick at least N5000 ($15) from a walk-in customer for that smartphone or tablet fix, will U still be home idle? Very common and true with this business! Learn today. Get " Mobile Phones & Tablets Repairs : A Complete Guide for Beginners and Professionals " from Amazon marketplaces, Barnes & Noble, eBay etc. Sure bet!

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• El-Wak 8 years ago

  You have to add the forest reserves. As a country, we must reconsider the decision to permit surface - mining. Vital land resources are being wasted. What at all do we have to show for all the mining in Ghana?

  You have to add the forest reserves. As a country, we must reconsider the decision to permit surface - mining. Vital land resources are being wasted. What at all do we have to show for all the mining in Ghana?

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• Adanko[the digger] 8 years ago

  I hope chairman Wontumi has complied with the directive and has pulled out all his excavators and other machineries from his galamsey sites.He used galamsey money to finance the NPP.

  I hope chairman Wontumi has complied with the directive and has pulled out all his excavators and other machineries from his galamsey sites.He used galamsey money to finance the NPP.

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• ATYCO #ONE THE CITIZEN! 8 years ago

  You and your govt are not serious and insane. Why should you say mining around water bodies alone? What about the forests? Nonsense! Was there no law earlier that forbidden them not to mine around water bodies alone to the ex ...
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  You and your govt are not serious and insane. Why should you say mining around water bodies alone? What about the forests? Nonsense! Was there no law earlier that forbidden them not to mine around water bodies alone to the extend of mining in waters? Stupid fools. Don't try! It has been banned till eternity. If you have hands in it, then the year 2020 is bye bye. Nsemfoon akwaakwa! Have you seen the rest of villagers who had suffered and will continue to suffer to the extend of the whole country from health related issues like air, land and water pollution? I don't want to hear about it. Mo aboboadam anaa de3n? If "little drops of water make the ocean" dea, then, little destruction of the environment will definitely destroy us all but it is just a matter of time which isn't too distant future. You are refusing to think about the future or generations yet unborn. Forget man because it won't happen again. How far you have destroyed the environment and the many resources in it is enough.

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• Misty 8 years ago

  What is the definition of "around water bodies"?

  What is the definition of "around water bodies"?

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• George Augustus 8 years ago

  Ghanaians wake up fellow Ghanaians please wake up this is not ndc npp go to Obuasi and ask for how many years gold is being mined since the year 1897 what this our political leaders take we for ? galamsey is not mining but t ...
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  Ghanaians wake up fellow Ghanaians please wake up this is not ndc npp go to Obuasi and ask for how many years gold is being mined since the year 1897 what this our political leaders take we for ? galamsey is not mining but total destruction of the entire nations ecology go to the so called Western civilization their foreign reserves are in GOLD from our natural resources of which it has not benefit the ordinary citizens of Ghana Mr. vice President it is not about only the water bodies but its totalities' our Environment for the generations to come is in Danger there is gold in China in America and Europe why are they not mining their land come to Lampadusa the Italian coast and see how African migrants are dying crossing the Mediterranean sea is just because of Africans bad leadership just like the way you are demonstrating in our generation when will this nonsense stop why are we so cheap in the mind to reason beyond money money money for the sake of humanity this is madness complete madness mostly found in Africa's unscrupulous leadership just to favour the few Galamsey must stop now.

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• Ghanaian 8 years ago

  That's thoughtful of you as a government it's Bether for few people die if they don't mine in our Rivers than for the whole country or population perish.
  Just because they don't know how valuable River and water is until ...
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  That's thoughtful of you as a government it's Bether for few people die if they don't mine in our Rivers than for the whole country or population perish.
  Just because they don't know how valuable River and water is until it dried out.

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• ayaricough 8 years ago

  Ghana is blessed with a competent government. But like the israelites, if we go back to the vomit called NDC (National Disaster Party), the punishment returns

  Ghana is blessed with a competent government. But like the israelites, if we go back to the vomit called NDC (National Disaster Party), the punishment returns

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• Kasavubu 8 years ago

  ...around water bodies? Whatabaut inside the water itself? Can Shi Huang Ti not get a greedy, foolish and unpatriotic Lawyer like JoJo Katafa-Bekama to defend him in court that the law says AROUND WATER BODIES and not INSIDE ...
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  ...around water bodies? Whatabaut inside the water itself? Can Shi Huang Ti not get a greedy, foolish and unpatriotic Lawyer like JoJo Katafa-Bekama to defend him in court that the law says AROUND WATER BODIES and not INSIDE WATER BODIES? By the blood our forerunners shed, let's make no room for any controversy. Conciseness and clarity of thought are crucial.

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• Kwame assin 8 years ago

  The problem with illegal miming operations in the is simply lack of opportunities for these able men and women who often lazing around in the neighborhood. The govt must provide an alternative source of income else the policy ...
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  The problem with illegal miming operations in the is simply lack of opportunities for these able men and women who often lazing around in the neighborhood. The govt must provide an alternative source of income else the policy of protecting the environment won't work. Most of the people have families to feed and the money has to come from somewhere. If the govt is serious about protecting the environment, unskilled and uneducated youth, who are in the ring of garasey businesses should find a place in society.

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• Kingsolomon 8 years ago

  This have to ban not only water body areas only but our fertal land for farming

  This have to ban not only water body areas only but our fertal land for farming

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