The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has admitted that the fight against illegal mining otherwise referred to as galamsey, is a difficult one which would need all-hands-on-deck approach to win.
Dr John Kingsley Krugu, the Executive Director of the Agency, told Parliament's Assurance Committee in Accra yesterday that until all stakeholders came together against the menace, the quest to end the pollution of water bodies, the depletion of forests and the degradation of arable lands would be a mirage. "Galamsey is a difficult challenge.
The more you try to arrest persons engaged in it, the more people move into it.
I feel sad about the state of our water bodies but it is all of us as Ghanaians who have that collective responsibility of dealing with it. "The responsibility for seeing a different result does not lie with a single agency.