Yesterday, in 2024, a circuit court in Accra granted the wishes of the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government, remanding into police and prison custody innocent Ghanaians for demonstrating in support of calls to stop galamsey.
This is an abuse of the human rights of these Ghanaians for simply expressing themselves through a demonstration against the devastating impact of galamsey.
One is not sure why the many arrests, including an older woman and her granddaughter who joined the protestors with a bottle of water fetched from one of the contaminated river bodies.
Also arrested was activist Felicity Nelson, who, like many other bold and public-spirited young men and women, believes that the government must rise to its responsibilities to tackle the galamsey menace.