The government is prevailed upon to muster courage and halt the destructiveillegal small scale mining ( galamsey) activities that have bedeviled the country as that is the only way that it can redeem itself from the public perception that state officials are actively involved in the destructive menace.

The chairman of the Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI), Dr.

Steve Manteaw, stressed the point at a forum to disseminate 2021/2022 reports on mining and oil and gas sectors of the economy in Sunyani, Bono region.

In an interview, Dr.