Vote against politicians who cash in on galamsey – Dr Asah-Asante

Political Science Lecturer, Dr Kwame  Asah Asante has called on Ghanaians to vote against any politician who seeks to gain financially from illegal mining activities in the country popularly refereed to as galamsey .

He said Ghana is at critical stage and its citizens could not afford to continue to play ostrich with the fight against illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey.

Dr Asah-Asante was speaking on Newspaper Review on JoyNews on Wednesday, September 4, monitored by GhanaPlus.com.

He was reacting to the current state of Ghana’s water bodies as a result of galamsey.

Let us make sure that we stand up against people who do this because water is life and now that water is being threatened to the extent that now the capacity of the Ghana water Company has been reduce from 70% to 40 and they are saying that if the situation does not change, we will hit 20 and zero ultimately”.

“Look, we are in difficult times and this is the time that we should stop playing the ostrich and call people out and make sure that anybody who is involved in this is apprehended and handed over to the police and that those politician who want to cash in on this, we call them out and vote  against them so that we know that we are doing a serious work otherwise, look, a day will come that this problem will engulf all of us and we will not be anywhere on the surface of this country, it’s unfortunate,” Dr Asah-Asante said.

Dr Asah-Asante on dangers of galamsey

Dr Asah-Asante enumerated some of the numerous dangers galamsey has brought on the Ghanaian citizenry adding that if nothing is done about it, there will be no human existence on the country called Ghana in the near future.

“……………..The effect is what we see at the Renal Department, the effect is what the head of Atomic Energy Commission is saying is cancer that takes a long time. Today you consume something which is infected and you get the effect in 10years time. This should occupy the attention of the MP and the government and the people of this country”.

“We think that money is everything, let me go for money. If you go for money there is no society call Ghana, where will you live, you will run away. Look at this big state, if everybody is gone or everybody is sick, I you sure you can be here? Because nobody will attend to you, you will not be able to get anything so please let us be responsible”.

Source: GhanaPlus.com