GALAMSEY FIGHT: GENUINE OR A SHAM?
Readers of this blog will remember this story on the fight against illegal mining. It was published by the bonanzah in June 2023. Here’s an upgraded version of it. At this moment, shall we all concede defeat in the fight against galamsey? At least we tried—or better still, pretended to try. We used all the tactics we know; persuasive, “buga-buga,” and everything in between. We talked tough—deployed legions of police and military, sent them after the operators, burnt their machines, confiscated some (which disappeared into thin air, by the way), arrested and jailed a few, and employed other such tactics. Yet, akin to the Greek mythological Medusa, several heads sprang up wherever the government ostensibly cut one off. Isn’t it a curious paradox that the galamsey menace worsens as the fight against it supposedly intensifies? Recent videos circulating in the media show rivers murkier than before—sludge-like in appearance—while vegetation continues to be devastated. As for the politics and
