Award-winning environmental journalist with JoyNews, Erastus Asare Donkor, has cautioned that repealing Legislative Instrument (L.I.) 2462 without robust enforcement of existing mining laws will do little to curb the destruction of Ghana's forests.
His comments come amid mounting public pressure and a national campaign urging the government to repeal L.I. 2462 - a regulation widely criticised for enabling mining in protected forest reserves.
Speaking at the JoyNews National Dialogue on Repealing L.I. 2462 on Thursday, May 8, Mr.
Asare Donkor warned that unless legal reforms are accompanied by strict and consistent enforcement, the country will merely return to the status quo. "Repealing L.I. 2462 without the requisite, strict enforcement of the laws will just take us back to zero.
