General News of Saturday, 15 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comLeading Member of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Sylvester Mensah has described the burning seized excavators in the renewed fight against ‘galamsey’ by the government as a lazy and reckless mindset. Sly Mensah said, “A future NDC Government would not burn seized galamsey excavators — clearly, it is a lazy and reckless mindset. Indeed, it can only be valid when we say “two good heads are better than one,” a posted on his Facebook page read further. The government in its instruction to soldiers undertaking the exercise asked that all mining activities taking place on river bodies and 100 metres around be stopped with equipment used destroyed. The directive which is being carried out by the soldiers to the latter has seen opinions across the country divided with footage from the field showing seized excavators being set ablaze.

Source: GhanaWeb May 15, 2021 07:18 UTC