Local authorities such as chiefs, District Chief Executives and law enforcement agencies especially the police should be held liable for the surge in illegal mining (galamsey), the Co-chair of the Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative GHEITI), Dr.
Steve Manteaw, has said.
He explained that the country's criminal code enjoined citizens especially these local authorities to report or arrest people who commit crimes and that their failure to do anything about galamsey smacks of complicity.
Dr.