Deputy General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Dr Kwabena Nyarko Otoo, has known as for the instant revocation of mining licenses held via politically uncovered folks occupied with galamsey operations.

Speaking on PleasureNews’ PM Express on October 13, Dr Otoo printed that some politically hooked up figures from each the governing and opposition events are deeply occupied with unlawful mining, sometimes called galamsey, and are benefiting from the destruction of Ghana’s water our bodies and forests.

He cited explicit circumstances exposed right through a TUC fact-finding project to evaluate the affect of galamsey on water remedy crops in portions of the Central and Eastern Regions.

“In Anum Apapam, we have been informed, someone known as Robert Lamptey, who has a license for small-scale mining in Anum Apapam and its environs, the place he has a concession.

“What he does is if I wish to mine and procure a land, I’m going and spot him, and he covers me together with his license, and I pay cash to him. I pay about GH¢70,000 to him. And then each week, no matter I make from that galamsey task, I give him about 30% of it,” Dr Otoo disclosed.

According to him, the issue extends past partisan strains, as politicians from each the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) were implicated within the illicit mining company.

“That Robert Lamptey is an NPP one who, since after the NPP misplaced the election, is now in collaboration with Chairman BB, who’s the NDC chairman for Akwatia, who’s now actively preserving the license and right through the mining,” Dr Otoo printed.

He wired that the actions of such folks aren’t best unlawful however are contributing considerably to the air pollution of the Ayensu River and the destruction of the Ayensu Forest, which might be essential ecological and water sources.

“These folks, someone should revoke their license as a result of they’re mining and if truth be told operating with folks mining at the Ayensu River and within the Ayensu Forest,” he steered.

The TUC’s fear follows rising fears that Ghana may just quickly face a national water scarcity if unlawful mining continues unchecked.

The nation’s greatest labour union lately performed a fact-finding project to judge the situation of key water remedy crops in Kwanyako, Brim, and Akyem, the place they came upon the devastating results of polluted water assets brought about via galamsey operations.

Dr Otoo’s revelations upload a political size to Ghana’s escalating environmental disaster, elevating severe questions on duty and the enforcement of mining rules.

His name for the withdrawal of licenses from politically hooked up operators highlights the TUC’s stance that the struggle towards galamsey can not be triumphant with out decisive motion towards the ones abusing their political affect for private scaling.

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