General News of Tuesday, 4 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comIllegal small-scale mining, popularly known as galamsey has left most water bodies mud-spattered. In a video sighted by GhanaWeb, a man weeps bitterly as his excavators are being burnt in front of him. The unidentified man who could not control himself sat on the floor to shed tears seeing his equipment for galamsey in flames. Meanwhile, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last week ordered the deployment of 200 security officials to mining areas in the country to clamp down on activities by illegal miners. The operatives have since been seizing galamsey machinery especially of persons operation on or close to water bodies.
