If we can’t stop galamsey, the eight helicopter victims died in vain – Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs

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• Wisdom Speaks 3 months ago

  Nonsense, create jobs build infrastructures good roads and curb corruption retrieve all the states funds embezzled and galamsey will stop

  Nonsense, create jobs build infrastructures good roads and curb corruption retrieve all the states funds embezzled and galamsey will stop

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• The only sensible statement in honour of the dead 3 months ago

  The chiefs have minced no words. Why are you praising the dead without mentioning what you wouldndontonavert futurebdeath due to this menace. Just using sweet words to console the families is not enough. Whether we like it or ...
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  The chiefs have minced no words. Why are you praising the dead without mentioning what you wouldndontonavert futurebdeath due to this menace. Just using sweet words to console the families is not enough. Whether we like it or not they will soon be forgotten like JJ and others.

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• Nii 3 months ago

  @ Wisdom
  Do you have to destroy your parents properties bcoz you're jobless ?The environment belongs to all of us,and the govt cannot sit down and watch the few irresponsible Ghanaians destroy it.

  @ Wisdom
  Do you have to destroy your parents properties bcoz you're jobless ?The environment belongs to all of us,and the govt cannot sit down and watch the few irresponsible Ghanaians destroy it.

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• JULOR CAESAR 3 months ago

  There's no turning back. A real effort to stop galamsey is finally in place, and it will succeed. Time to start imprisoning Chinese galamsey criminals in Ghana prisons instead of deporting them without any prison time. This l ...
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  There's no turning back. A real effort to stop galamsey is finally in place, and it will succeed. Time to start imprisoning Chinese galamsey criminals in Ghana prisons instead of deporting them without any prison time. This lax policy is what keeps drawing more Chinese crooks to Ghana to engage in galamsey. Instead of just seizing the mining equipment of these galamsey owners, the government should also have a forfeiture program aimed at seizing the assets of these galamsey owners. Go after their bank accounts, their houses and other known assets, and that can be used to clean up the contaminated lands left behind by the galamsey criminals.

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• Make farming attractive 3 months ago

  One obvious way to stop galamsey is to make farming attractive. Why does a cocoa farmer seĺl his land to galamsey operators? Because farming is a thankless task which represents very poor return on investment. Daily rated ...
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  One obvious way to stop galamsey is to make farming attractive. Why does a cocoa farmer seĺl his land to galamsey operators? Because farming is a thankless task which represents very poor return on investment. Daily rated labour expensive and hard to come by. Last year, it's was ghc80. Thus year, it's ghc100 a day (8am to 1pm), And the promised increment by the president didn't materialise. When you consider the sacrifices made by farmers, the way they live, the water they drink, the lack of schools for their children, why would galamsey not be an attractive option?

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• Kanawu 3 months ago

  Then give them jobs.
  I cannot be against galamsey because I don't have jobs to give the youth. I assume the regional house of chiefs have jobs for the youth?

  Then give them jobs.
  I cannot be against galamsey because I don't have jobs to give the youth. I assume the regional house of chiefs have jobs for the youth?

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• James 3 months ago

  Let's stope deceiving our selves; Galamsey cannot be eliminated. Galamawy is like corruption. We can manage it and m8 miserable it's operations and impact,but to eliminate it, lalai

  Let's stope deceiving our selves; Galamsey cannot be eliminated. Galamawy is like corruption. We can manage it and m8 miserable it's operations and impact,but to eliminate it, lalai

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• WISDOM 3 months ago

  AN AVOIDABLE TRAGEDY?
  If the government was seriously committed to responsible small scale gold mining, the function at Obuasi would've been postponed when the VVIPs on the program decided not to attend.
  Obviously ...
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  AN AVOIDABLE TRAGEDY?
  If the government was seriously committed to responsible small scale gold mining, the function at Obuasi would've been postponed when the VVIPs on the program decided not to attend.
  Obviously the absence of the VVIPs took away the impactful impression the function was expected to create.
  Postponement was a good choice. The crash and the resultant tragedy could've been avoided. Prophesorial claims of prophetic chalarltans would've become irrelevant.

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