Galamsey fight: We are cowards – Dr Ishmael Norman

A Security Analyst and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Security, Disaster and Emergency Studies, Dr Ishmael Norman has said Ghana and its leaders are cowards and that explain why the country has not made any head way in its fight against the galamsey menace.

According to him, if that isn’t so, Ghana should have been able to deal with the canker which is eroding the country’s arable lands as well as it water bodies.

Dr Norman made the comment on Ghana Tonight on TV3 on Tuesday, September 27 monitored by GhanaPlus.com.

 “Alfred, we are cowards, the leadership is cowardly because if we were not cowards we would have address this issue,” he said.

Dr Norman likened the destruction cause by illegal mining to the Hiroshima bomb which hit Japan’s cities of cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 killing between 129,000 and 226,000 people adding that the country is in a critical national security emergency disaster.

“Alfred, if you look at the level of destruction going on the Eastern Region, in Ashanti Region in Central Region and Western Region, all the regions that illegal mining is going on, the collective level of destructive is greater than the Hiroshima bomb.. it was dropped in one location , 15kilotones txt dynamite. The level of destruction that illegal miners have cost over the country is equivalent to that.With all due respect to all the people who suffered in this atomic attack by the united state o Japan in World war two”.

Dr Norman lamented the country’s seeming unpreparedness in any situation and quizzed how the it will fared assuming it is hit by a terrorist attack today.

“We are in a very critical national security disaster emergency situation, complex emergency and the government doesn’t seem to have any control. Imagine how we will handle a terrorist attack. It will be the same, we are not prepared for anything in this country and we are not able to act because party big wigs are involve on both sides of the political divide , NPPs  are involved, NDCs are involved, district assemblies people, DCEs, MECs, politicians, that is why we are not doing anything to stop this anytime soon,” he lamented.

Source: GhanaPlus.com