Small Scale Miners have called on the government to support its task force in the fight against illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey.
A visit to many galamsey sites by a task force of the Small Scale Miners at Mankranso and other illegal mining sites indicates that workers seen mining on river Mankran, are all foreigners and not members of the Small Scale Miners.
This according to the authorized miners is worrying and ready to help government in its fight to stop illegal miners.
“Our task force is ready to fight these illegal miners and we will need the support from government to do that.” The leader of the group said
Adding that: “It's unfortunate how everyone blame Small Scale Miners for polluting our rivers but we are not responsible for that. We get approval from the rightful authorities before we operate and we are required to do our mining a far distance from any river area.”
“These pollutions are caused by some illegal miners who only mine on the water but we will make sure this will stop. We have a task force now to deal with the situation with the help of the government.”
Their request follows a national call to ban small-scale miners from operating with claims that they pollute major water bodies.
