The presidential candidate for the Alliance for Revolutionary Change, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, has laid out a detailed plan to tackle illegal mining, commonly known as galamsey, with a focus on demobilising the equipment used in the activity.
Mr Kyerematen criticised the current government’s approach of seizing and burning excavators, calling it ineffective and short-sighted.
According to the former Trade Minister, the practice of burning equipment does not offer a long-term solution to the galamsey crisis.
He proposed a more strategic approach that involves the military in a systematic and sustainable demobilisation of mining machinery.
This, he believes, will better address the root of the problem without causing unnecessary destruction.
The demobilisation plan is part of Kyerematen’s broader 10-point blueprint to combat illegal mining.
A key aspect of this blueprint is a one-year nationwide ban on small-scale and community mining, which will provide the necessary time to introduce proper regulations and rehabilitate the damaged environment.
He has called for a shift in government policy, advocating for a more measured and impactful response to the galamsey issue, which continues to pose serious threats to Ghana's land and water resources.
“Demobilisation of all machinery and equipment that are currently used in small-scale and community mining. Under the supervision of the military, if you demobilise equipment, you need to do three things- first, you need to keep them under inventory, two, you need to have them properly stored and three, you preserve them."
“This practice of burning equipment doesn’t make any sense. And that is why the GTP (Great Transformational Plan) proposes that you demobilise, and inventorise them so that you know what you have. Otherwise, after one year, they will be out of use," he stated.
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