The Executive Director of the Centre for Extractives and Development, Ghana, Mr Samuel Bekoe, has emphasised the need to halt mining activities in water bodies and forest reserves, rather than a complete ban on all mining.
He also said the call for a declaration of state of emergency on all forms of mining was not the ideal solution to illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, because some small-scale miners were operating legally and responsibly.
Mr Bekoe was speaking at a dissemination workshop on the 2021/2022 Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHETTI) Reports, at New Abirem, in the Eastern Region, on Thursday.
It was to educate stakeholders on insights from the latest GHETTI findings that focused on the mining, oil, and gas sectors, along with the 2020 Artisanal and Small- Scale Mining (ASM) Report.
