General News of Saturday, 1 February 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comFight against galamsey: Too many politicians are funded from ‘galamsey’ money – Kofi BentilKofi Bentil, Senior Vice President, IMANI AfricaKofi Bentil, Senior Vice President of Think Tank, IMANI Africa, says he is pessimistic about the fight against illegal mining known as ‘galamsey’ because too many politicians and leaders in the country are involved in the menace. According to him, there’s only one solution to fighting ‘galamsey’ and that is to make a simple rule that wherever illegal mining is found, the District Chief Executive should be sacked. “When they formed Operation Vanguard to stop ‘galamsey’, the same group of people have become the enablers and we’re not serious about ‘galamsey’ because our leaders are involved in it,” Kofi Bentil said on JoyNews’ News File on Saturday, February 1. So far, we have about 20,000 or more who have moved from ‘galamsey’ into community mining. President Nana Akufo-Addo established the National Taskforce Committee otherwise known as Operation Vanguard to fight the destruction of water bodies particularly due to illegal small-scale mining.

Source: GhanaWeb February 01, 2020 14:48 UTC