Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has suggested a new approach to tackle the growing issue of illegal mining in Ghana. On January 27, 2025, Buah proposed that instead of relying on military personnel to protect rivers from illegal miners, a team of trained professionals should be established to guard the water bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Buah argued that the current method of deploying military personnel for 4 to 12 months has only yielded short-term positive results. He believes that the new approach will provide long-term protection for Ghana’s rivers, which are being polluted by illegal mining activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minister’s proposal is part of the government’s efforts to combat illegal mining, which has been a persistent problem in Ghana. The government has already implemented various measures to address the issue, including the establishment of an Inter-Ministerial Committee against Illegal Mining and the provision of support for the operations of this committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minister Proposes New Plan to Combat Illegal Mining<\/p>\n
Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has suggested a new approach to tackle the growing issue of illegal mining in Ghana. On January 27, 2025, Buah proposed that instead of relying on military personnel to protect rivers from illegal miners, a team of trained professionals should be established to guard the water bodies.<\/p>\n
Buah argued that the current method of deploying military personnel for 4 to 12 months has only yielded short-term positive results. He believes that the new approach will provide long-term protection for Ghana’s rivers, which are being polluted by illegal mining activities.<\/p>\n
The Minister’s proposal is part of the government’s efforts to combat illegal mining, which has been a persistent problem in Ghana. The government has already implemented various measures to address the issue, including the establishment of an Inter-Ministerial Committee against Illegal Mining and the provision of support for the operations of this committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5582,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions\/5582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}