Galamsey fight: We have partly succeeded – Mustapha Gbande

Speaking on JoyPrime on Wednesday, July 22, Mr Gbande credited the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources and the National Strategic Coordinator for their efforts in strengthening measures to tackle illegal mining activities.

Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mustapha Gbande, has said the country has partly succeeded in the fight against illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, with the scale of destruction to water bodies and forest reserves reducing due to ongoing interventions."We've seen Operation Vanguard; we've seen all of these operations come and go, but currently, as we speak, a team that has been put in place I was in Sunyani with the Lands and Natural Resources Minister to commission that team they've been able to dismantle a lot of the river body mining and forest reserve mining."