The founder and general overseer of Perez Chapel has warned that failure to deal with illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, will lead to us importing water and food.
Archbishop Charles Agyinasare has therefore underscored the immediate need for authorities to deal with the issue while also calling for collective efforts from the public in addressing the matter.
He said galamsey remains a threat to the environment and public health; hence, the need for us to push to have it dealt with once and for all.
Archbishop Charles Agyinasare indicated that 2026 must offer us an opportunity to turn around and change.
The church, he argued, has a key role to play in ensuring that we have a social and moral turnaround while confronting moral decay, social injustice and environmental destruction, especially galamsey, which is devastating our land.
“If we don’t do something about it, very soon we will have to import food to eat. We have to import water to drink because our lands have been destroyed. Our chiefs must be responsible for stopping galamsey on their lands.”
He said just as the Paramount Chief of the Volta Region recently declared a zero tolerance towards galamsey, other chiefs can equally do the same in their respective jurisdictions.
He noted that if a chief could stop his people from doing galamsey, every chief could do that, but “unfortunately some of the chiefs themselves are buying the machines to do the galamsey.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
