The Minister nominee for Environment, Science, and Technology, Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, has proposed a national audit to assess the extent of environmental degradation in Ghana.
Muhammed believes such an initiative will provide concrete data to guide environmental policies and restoration efforts.
“If you have an audit that is done, then you have something concrete in hand to work with. But it seems to me that we are engaged in firefighting. You cannot specifically say this is the level of destruction caused by galamsey and other human activities.
“So the first thing I intend to do is to see if we can have a national audit to determine the extent of the destruction, taking into consideration the work that was funded by the World Bank, EPA, and MESTI,” he stated.
The Tamale Central MP made these remarks during his vetting on Thursday, January 30, 2025, expressing concern over the environmental destruction.
“What I can say is that I know that the World Bank financed a project undertaken by the EPA and the ministry to determine the destruction of water bodies and forests. And the report was shocking. When they quantified it, it constituted about 10% of our GDP,” he revealed.
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