Media personality Omanhene Kwabena Asante has said that he does not concur with calls from a section of the public for the government to ban all forms of mining activities in the country.
According to him, the measure of deploying military and police personnel to the mining sites to deal with the culprits would not help to overcome the menace totally.
The Adom TV presenter asserted that it would be better to engage in intensive sensitization of the people involved in illegal mining activities in order to convince them to desist from it willingly rather than applying force. "We cannot use the same old strategy like deploying the police and military to the water bodies to combat the illegal miners.
I was at Wassa Akropong advocating against illegal mining, and a young guy asked me to give him GH¢30,000 to buy a concession, and he would pay me off with one million cedis in a month's time. "So with such a person, you need to take your time and talk to them.