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Asante Akim North lawmaker Kwame Andy Appiah-Kubi has called for an amendment to the Minerals and Mining Act to empower the chiefs and make them part of the mining contract negotiations.
This, he said would afford the traditional authorities the opportunity to make input into the contracts to ensure that the mining practice does not destroy their communities.
“We need to amend Minerals and Mining law to give power to the chiefs to be involved in mining contract negotiations… I believe that the community approach to fighting galamsey is much better than the institutional approach,” he said on the Key Points on TV3 on Saturday, June 15.
Mr Appiah-Kubi noted that the fight against illegal small scale mining (Galamsey) will be successful if the entire community is involved in the fight.
He says he has been successful in stopping the illicit mining practices in his constituency because of the involvement of the whole community in the fight.
“This is a fight for the whole community, you need to mobilise the whole community,” he said. “Galamsey will not happen in my constituency,” he stressed.
The discussion on the Key Points centered on the comments made by the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for the constituency, Ernest Frimpong regarding galamsey.
Mr Frimpong was seen and heard in a video that has gone viral on social media telling illegal miners to attack any military or security officer who attempts stopping them from engaging in ‘galamsey.’
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He urged them to initiate reprisal attacks on the military, promising them that himself, the MCE and the Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko Mensah, who was present at the meeting, will always protect them.
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) subsequently issued a statement urging members of the public to desist from attacking soldiers as that would amount to a grave offence.
He was arrested and subsequently granted bail.
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