A National Organiser aspirant for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Baba Jamal, has asserted that the ban on small-scale mining in the area is the cause of hardship in the country.
Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen Thursday, Mr Jamal explained that small-scale mining was the source of livelihood for the people in the area, making the collapse of the business cause a lot more harm than the good it intended.
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“I warned the government to take this collapse through a gradual process and not to stop the activities at once but they did not listen and this has now become a problem, causing a lot of mess in the Akwatia community.
“There were legal small-scale miners among the people, even though the galamseyers were majority but now, all of them have been affected. Akwatia, today, is broken down completely and now a ghost town”.
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The former Member of Parliament stated that he was even accused of being a galamseyer himself even though he had no problem with the ban but the “modus operandi that was adopted by government”.