Kwesi Pratt Jr, the Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, has described the approach to the fight against illegal mining by successive governments as a joke.
Speaking on the dangers posed by illicit mining on Pan African TV's 'Alhaji and Alhaji' on March 22, 2025, he outrightly condemned the populist treatment of the menace by successive governments. "Occasionally we see some labourers paraded before cameras as culprits of illegal mining and you wonder, can these people afford the outrageously expensive excavators and Chang Fangs? "Clearly, our top politicians and businessmen are the financiers of these damaging activities and yet we go around chasing small boys in the guise of fighting illicit mining?
Even the reports on galamsey fight are a joke!" he lamented.
He criticized the recent reports on the canker, stressing that it avoided the crucial details needed to tackle the problem from the root. "What became of the report by Prof Frimpong Boateng.
