A participant at Media General's Anti-galamsey forum on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, questioned the Minerals Commission's call for a concerted effort in fighting illegal mining.
According to him, the Commission cannot unilaterally grant concessions to people for them to abuse it and come back to ask Ghanaians to help in the fight against the canker which is also known as 'galamsey'.
Speaking at the forum on the theme: The Galamsey Fight, Beyond the Talk, What Next?, the young man noted that if the Minerals Commission had not reneged on its role in ensuring people work according to the guidelines given them, the issue of galamsey wouldn't have exacerbated to these levels.
He described the Minerals Commission's call for a united front in tackling the menace a charade, since it cannot hold offenders responsible for their actions. "If you sit in your office and give concession to people to go and mine somewhere else and you go out there and you find out that they are mining in the river bodies, what are you telling me to do?