Chief Executive Officer of Minerals Commission, Martin Kwaku Ayisi, has lamented about failure of getting appropriate places for small scale miners, attributing it to the cause of high rate of illegal mining best known as galamsey in Ghana.
In an interview with Kwaku Dawuro, on Movement In The Morning, on Movement TV/Wontumi radio, Mr Ayisi expressed worry with regards to land allocation for small scale miners in Ghana without having to affect water bodies. He stated that it has led to the major contributors to illegal mining(Galamsey), which would be rectified once such need has been met.
According to Mr Ayisi ” Let me tell you something today, one of the major contributors of illegal mining today is getting a place for the small scale miners to work, something people do not know but only miners do. You realise Ghana is empty when you travel within the north and south, and we will have a solution to galamsey today if appropriate lands are allocated to them. They prefer to do try your luck by degrading various lands in search of gold so once they hit, they all come to that particular land for some GH1000.
So that is what they do that ruins the land, but what we have not done as a nation is to research like Lithium, which conducted their research and have now been able to locate it. It is our responsibility to do an exploration on the block out, and share it amongst the small scale miners which has never been done before in this country so this government has started.”