General News of Wednesday, 2 May 2018Source: Myjoyonline.comMahama amended mining law to arrest offenders but suspended efforts to arrest - BaakoFormer President John Dramani MahamaIn a bid to fight illegal mining popularly called galamsey in Ghana, ex-president John Mahama amended the mining law, by criminalizing illegal small scale mining and proffering arrests and prosecution of offenders. He, however, suspended the anti-galamsey taskforce which he set up to arrest illegal small-scale miners and prosecutors. At the end of his tenure in 2016, illegal small-scale mining had assumed alarming proportions, destroying the country’s forest, polluting rivers and degrading the environment. That is the summary of ex-president John Mahama’s fight against galamsey, Editor in Chief of the New Crusading Guide Malik Kweku Baako Jnr has said. Kweku Baako JnrEx-president John Mahama had criticized the government’s anti galamsey fight describing it as ineffective.

Source: GhanaWeb May 02, 2018 15:22 UTC