Thursday, 30 March 2017

THE MOCKERY AND NONSENSE OF GALAMSEY IN GHANA


THE MOCKERY AND NONSENSE OF GALAMSEY IN GHANA

Galamsey is a popular name for illegal small scale mining in Ghana
Notorious Galamsey has openly operated in Ghana for decades
Although illegal, Galamsey comfortably connives and fraternizes with some selfish traditional leaders, greedy politicians and desperate local folks
Its chief beneficiaries are foreigners
Its current and future victims are related communities, Ghana and her unborn generations.

Galamsey continues to steal billions of Cedis from Ghana
It continues to destroy its vast agricultural lands
It is polluting and emptying her water bodies
If not tamed, Ghana will be importing water in the next decades
The related communities are becoming inhabitable because of its harmful operations
Its daily drinking spree with rapacious and narcissistic chiefs and politicians is still rocking
Its acceptance and tolerance level in palaces and political parlours is galloping
Like corruption, it is making its participants suddenly wealthy while assassinating its victims
The unborn generations of Gold Coast Ghana are shocked at the lukewarm and selfish attitudes of the present generation.

Galamsey is worse than HIV Aids, robbery and gruesome murder
Yet the law enforcement agencies of Ghana have so far done little to arrest and prosecute it
Yet the Government of Ghana is merely complaining, issuing threats and giving ultimatums
Two weeks or more ultimatum for its actors to stop the illegality whiles lives are perishing
Oh! who will salvage today’s Gold Coast Ghana and her future from this atrocities impunity?

Arise you slumbering citizens of Ghana and protect your Motherland
Enough with the sleeping; enough with the lukewarm; enough of this mockery and nonsense!

Richard Obeng Mensah, author of Wisdom Thoughts
richardobengmensah@gmail.com

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