A Security Expert Colonel Festus Aboagye (Retired) has described the deployment of the military to tackle the illegal small-scale mining (Galamseny) menace and also the burning of some chanfans as the laziest approach to tackling the threat to national security.
He questioned how sustainable military deployment is.
His comment comes at a time when the soldiers who have been deployed under the government's "Operation Halt" initiative to fight against illegal small-scale mining destroyed 18 chanfans, 10 industrial water pumping machines, and one excavator in various illegal mining sites across Ghana.
The destruction formed part of the government's measures to tackle the illicit small-scale mining menace (Galamsemy." President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had directed the Minister for Defence to deploy additional military forces to intensify the ongoing operation halt which aims to curb illegal mining activities.