Bantamahene Urges Government To Empower Chiefs To Fight Galamsey
Bantamahene, Baffour Owusu Amankwatia IV, has appealed to the government to empower chiefs to deal with the issue of Galamsey in the country.
He said the powers of chiefs to arrest recalcitrant citizens had diminished and there was almost no they could do to salvage the awful environmental degradation perpetrated through wanton exploitation of gold.
Speaking in an interview with the media in Kumasi, Baffour suggested to the government to fully involve traditional rulers in mining communities or areas in the fight against illegal mining.
He indicated any other measures without chiefs, would be a total failure.
He said although the government had taken various arrangements and measures, for example, the involvement of the security agencies to fight galamsey, that could not stand up to anything because traditional rulers, the custodians of the land, had not been actively involved.
He pointed out that, it was the chiefs in the mining areas who knew the galamsey operators staying among other people in the mining communities, villages and even hamlets somewhere down in the forest stores.
Such chiefs, Baffour Amankwatia stated, could point out the galamsey operators without fear for them to be arrested to face full rigors of the law.
He communicated serious worry at the rate forest saves and water bodies were being obliterated with exemption by illegal miners and their related activities because of decline in the nation’s moral and cultural values.
“Chiefs, hitherto, had the power to summon these irresponsible people to the palace but that power to summon has been taken away. As a human institution, there might have been some instances of abuse of power to summon but that could have been rectified.
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“Paliament should look at this again to empower chiefs to deal with the galamsey menace”, he emphasized.
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