For many Ghanaians, the image is now painfully familiar: rivers once clear and life-giving now murky, stained the color of diluted Milo, our unofficial national beverage.
These polluted waters are the most visible consequence of galamsey, which has tainted 60 percent of Ghana's major water bodies.
But the environmental catastrophe runs deeper than the poisoned rivers-it is a symptom of a broken political system, one where the financiers of galamsey wield unchecked influence over our country's governance.
With national elections just days away, it doesn't take much imagination to connect the dots between galamsey profits and campaign coffers.
