Ghana: EPA Rallies Nationwide Support for Galamsey Fight …Calls for All Hands-On-Deck to Defeat Menace

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has admitted that the fight against illegal mining otherwise referred to as galamsey, is a difficult one which would need all-hands-on-deck approach to win.

Dr John Kingsley Krugu, the Executive Director of the Agency, told Parliament’s Assurance Committee in Accra yesterday that until all stakeholders came together against the menace, the quest to end the pollution of water bodies, the depletion of forests and the degradation of arable lands would be a…