According to him, Operation Halt II is making a lot of impact as water bodies damaged due to small scale illegal mining - galamsey - operations are seeing some improvement. Speaking at the Meet the Press briefing in Accra, the Minister noted that, the support of military and other security operatives has yielded positive results in the fight against galamsey. He noted that plans are being put in place to curb the mining activities which takes place at night. This is because the illegal miners have now resorted to mining at night to avoid the day-time operations of the task force. “The mining activities in the night, they call it “All night” in the communities we visited, I think it is important that we deal with this “All night” phenomenon of mining activities.

Source: GhanaWeb May 19, 2021 15:11 UTC