How Do A People Or A Nation Avoid Consequences Of Fate: Second Coming Of What Happened To Old Ghana Empire.

The human race never learns from past mistakes, as we keep living cyclical lives of repeating the mistakes of Adam and Eve from generations to generation, millennium to millennium, civilizations to civilizations, and it isn’t funny that we aren’t learning any lessons from ARCHEOLOGY.

We should never deceive ourselves that we are the first humanity who have travelled to space, or attempting to explore the length and breadth of the universe in trying to conquer it.

Have you forgotten that Prophet Ezekiel once did space travel when he was shown the whole earth in a ‘spacecraft’ of a sort; and also remember, many of us like Jacob in the Bible on the beginning of his sojourns, saw different heavens in a dream? Don’t attempt to define that as witchcraft or metaphysical travels, especially as the world is more weird than we see and know it.

Ever wondered how others could prophesy about the ‘Twin Towers’ of the USA and its fall or destruction of the might of the USA; and or what about the exploits of the Babylonian nation?

More importantly, what about the meanings, understanding and impact of names and what they proffer for those named after others: do they impact or influence their lives or lifestyles?

What does the future hold for our great nation, Ghana – from the exploits, failures and conquest of the former Ghana Empire, are there any real lessons to learn to avoid the mistakes of their era or dispensation?

This is why the way we are handling the issues of GALAMSEY is most sad and worrying, to the extent that those of us crying and worrying isn’t because we are not participants or beneficiaries in the Galamsey but because we are fearful of the consequences of what lie ahead of us a nation and as a people.

Can you, by any stretch of imagination, see what we will face if we find gold around the upper ends of the Volta River with the attendant impact on the Akosombo and Bui Dams?

I am not a proper student of history but I know about the effects of GALAMSEY and the role it played in the destruction of the old Ghana Empire, before its conquest; that the GOLD DEPOSITS, which marked her greatness, was also the reason for her downfall, curse as well as heralded her extinction, or dreadful end to the rise of such a great empire, whose King and his Palace used gold for everything.

I mean, everything the king used was gold, not silver nor bronze nor any other metal was used for the production of everything, not even spoons or knives of tea cups.

The dire consequences that led to the empire’s destruction, started with their own version of Galamsey: their water bodies turned milky yellow and started drying up to dried up totally to the point that they then started importing water for everything. Their population developed various sicknesses, which they defined as curses from the water gods, after they have abused all practices of sustainable mining practices, especially as the kingpins were all friends and relatives of the King of the Ghana Empire, who saw themselves as above the law. These people were not liable for anything or responsible for the desecration of the environment.

Finally, the population started traveling distances to get common water, they started migrating away from the Ghana Empire towards water wells and cities, as cost of water became unbearable within their cities and villages. This state of affairs weakened the Kingdom and made it far easier for her ultimate conquest.

Is this where we want to go?

Unfortunately, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah isn’t around for us to ask whether he knew of this history of former Ghana Empire, and to have interrogated the consequences for choosing the name ‘GHANA’ on the eve of the country’s independence?

Didn’t the historians at that time of all the arguments of who should be credited with evolving or selecting the name: ‘GHANA’ was going on. What a sad reflection.

This period of GALAMSEY calls for sober heads with no romanticism as what lies ahead of us is more serious than we are joking with now. We ought to be mindful that it is our whole future as a people and as a nation, which is at risk and premised on how we handle this without the extreme partisanship, which is clouding all sound rationalization.

This is the test we face, requiring sound character and discernment to resolve, especially with the presence of aliens, who are now the kingpins, including the Chinese, politicians who are prepared and ready to pay any price to maintain the status quo but are pawns to the political class in power.

This is the time for anybody, Ghanaian and everybody to rise up, devoid of the extreme greed of those, who wield the power of the Jubilee House, to support the fight against the state of the Galamsey, reminiscent of the days leading to the collapse and fall of the old Ghana Empire.

We should remember that those, who can afford the excavators, for their wealth, will be the first to fly out and leave the rest of us to suffer the consequences of the Galamsey, including many giving birth with all sorts of deformities from the chemicals and poisons, we have  inundated our water bodies and environment, creating new cancers for our people. The warning signs are now on the wall and our socio-economic and political leaders should act now before the inevitable happens.

What is of ultimate importance within the next quarter is to send a team of scientists, environmentalists, ecologists, and chemists amongst others, to all the areas of active and non-active Galamsey to investigate and determine the impact, not of socio-economic study or impact, but also scientific to determine the real consequences, including new diseases or deformities from childbirth for the immediate inhabitants, district, region and our nation.

This is urgent because the chemicals the ‘offenders’ have been using in the enterprise are of real danger for all of us, not only for drinking waters but for the environment.

What will happen to us, the ‘new’ GHANA, will be far more and worst than what happened to the old Ghana Empire and therefore, the results of this exercise should be published and recommendations implemented before so that we reshape and work towards a GREEN CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS (1957 – 2057) on a clean slate.

NOTE: This article was first published June 2021