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Galamsey: Ecocide by mercury, arsenic, lead, cyanide?
['Grace Tsotsoo Quaye']
The Ghana Report
There were heart-wrenching accounts about food, water, soil and even air in Konongo, heavily contaminated with poisonous heavy metals, such as, lead, arsenic, cyanide and mercury by galamseyers.
Incidentally, Konongo/Asante-Akyem is one of Ghana’s breadbaskets, “exporting” yams, cocoyam, plantains, tomatoes, onions and fruits to other parts of Ghana, particularly Accra.
In Kumasi, a final-year student of the Akenten-Appiah –Menka-University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development (AAMUSTED) was stabbed to death.
We are digging our own graves!”In Ghana, galamsey has degraded our forests/lands, polluted rivers and poisoned underground water with chemicals such as cyanide.
He may, therefore, not have had time to read my article titled Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference and galamsey.