The cries of a Patriot against the Galamsey

This article has been written from a post made by Richard Addo the leader of Volunteer Against Environmental Degradation, VAED. It makes very interesting reading and I have his permission to share it. We all need to join the #StopGalamsey war.

Before the incidence of galamsey at the scale we find them today, rains fell but our river bodies weren’t this dirty, they were safe for drinking. Debris makes the water dirty for at most three days after the rain but it regains its natural state again. These illegal miners have mounted very strong opposition to the fight against illegal mining, such that they have intimidated the Government in power that if you fight against galamsey we will vote against you.

The story is opposite, the innocent farmers who are in the majority are rather suffering at the hands of these illegal miners and cannot report because the DCEs who represent Government are behind these illegal miners including the Chinese, the DCE happens to be the Head of District Security Committee as well as the District Mining Committee. In my village, a Chinese illegal miner shot and killed and Ghanaian and the case was closed quietly. This cannot be right.

Should we sit and allow this to continue, will we not learn from history? Past President John Mahama allowed galamsey and the poor farmers who can only express themselves through the ballot box showed him where true power resided. Should the NPP also allow the same to happen to us come 2020?

We have been at the grounds and we hear the complaints of the farmers and ordinary Ghanaians in the villages. Ghanaians are now more discerning when it comes to elections. As an NPP executive, I weep for my party. If we fail this fight, we have failed God, Ghanaians and the future unborn. We must see this fight as a divine calling and charge. God gave us the power to transform our country. When we said the battle is the Lords, now it seems the battle is for money.

I was born and bred in the Amansie South, now a haven for Chinese illegal miners. We drank from our streams, now its sad galamsey has taken over our river bodies and forest.

Our old ladies and youth are crying because of the rate at which Chinese galamsey pits are killing our relatives.

It goes beyond power!

We must fight against environmental degradation!

It is a killer and it goes beyond NPP and NDC!

#StopGalamsey

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