Former Chief Executive Officer of CAL Bank, Frank Adu, has delivered a scathing critique of the government's approach to tackling illegal small-scale mining, popularly known as galamsey, warning that the country is on a perilous path if more decisive action is not taken.
In an interview with Joy News monitored by GhanaWeb, Mr Adu expressed alarm over the extent of environmental destruction caused by galamsey activities and criticised what he described as the state's failure to enforce meaningful measures.
He went as far as proposing the use of drone technology to launch aerial attacks on illegal mining sites, should the government prove incapable of confronting the crisis head-on. "I don't fault them.
You probably should go to some country, open your skies to them and say they should use drone technology to bomb all these galamsey sites because you can map them," he stated. "It's going to be like Colombia eventually - the cartels running this galamsey will control the politicians because they can fund you to become an MP." Mr.
