Colonel Festus Aboagye, a security analyst, has expressed strong concerns about the sustainability of the deployment of the military by President as one of the measures to clamp down on galamsey.
Colonel Festus Aboagye, in an interview with TV3 and monitored by peacefmonline.com, stated that the impact of galamsey in Ghana is profound and poses multifaceted consequences on Ghanaians, adding that the deployment of the military to galamsey sites without any prior collation of data is the laziest approach adopted by the government to tackle the menace.
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Festus Aboagye explained that between 2018 and 2019, there was a similar situation where the military was deployed by the President to the galamsey areas only to leave in a short time for the illicit mining practices to resurge.