Nana Obiri Boahen, a former Deputy General Secretary of the NPP, has indicated that the use of a joint security taskforce to clamp down on illegal mining cannot curb the menace.
According to him, the government's use of a taskforce in combating galamsey is not pragmatic, given the pervasiveness of the canker.
He condemned the politicisation of the fight against illegal mining and called for a more inclusive approach to the fight against the vice that is fast eroding the vegetation and polluting water bodies. "The hue and cry about NPP or NDC bigwigs being culpable of illegal mining is much ado about nothing.
All the drama over Aowin MP being allegedly involved in galamsey was all needless. "If you asked me, I would say… and so what?
