Involve the entire community in the fight against galamsey – Appiah-Kubi

Lawmaker for Asante Akim North Kwame Andy Appiah-Kubi has said the fight against illegal small-scale mining (Galamsey)  will be successful if the entire community is involved in the fight.

He says he has been successful in stopping the illicit mining practices in his constituency because of the involvement of the whole community in the fight.

“This is a fight for the whole community, you need to mobilise the whole community,” he said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday, June 15.

“Galamsey will not happen in my constituency,” he stressed.

The discussion on the Key Points centered on the comments made by the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for the constituency, Ernest Frimpong regarding galamsey.

Mr Frimpong was seen and heard in a video that has gone viral on social media telling illegal miners to attack any military or security officer who attempts stopping them from engaging in ‘galamsey.’

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He urged them to initiate reprisal attacks on the military, promising them that himself, the MCE and the Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko Mensah, who was present at the meeting, will always protect them.

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) subsequently issued a statement urging members of the public to desist from attacking soldiers as that would amount to a grave offence.

He was arrested and subsequently granted bail.