A Kumasi-based businessman, Nana Bonsu, popularly known as Nana Mandela has suggested that inclusion of National Policy in the statutory laws of the country would go a long way to halt certain rots that have characterized certain citizens in the country.
Nana Mandela who was reacting to the alleged high trend of corruption cases in the country was particularly focusing on the devastating destructions that galamsey activities have over the years caused to the nation and the government inability to stop it.
According to the businessman, he believes that the only alternative way that could help bring the galamsey to its end is to give our security forces the power to go rounds the galamsey sites across the country and if anyone is caught in the act of operating illegal mining, the person be shot and killed instantly at the site.
Nana Mandela indicated that if such “shoot and kill” at site law is passed out and effectively applied, it will scare illegal miners from continuing their activities to destroy our arable lands and water bodies.
“If a destroyer or wicked offender is killed, that person cannot come back to reoffend” Nana Mandela pointed out.
Nana Mandela stressed that the country has reached a point where no one is ready to accept lip services, and therefore it is up to the citizens to rise up to their mandates and defend mother Ghana.
He said though the political parties can come together and sign anti-galamsey accord through the 1992 constitution to end galamsey, he sees that, the move cannot work properly hence the call for National Policy concept where the sitting or incoming government can apply the laws into action.
That was not all, Nana Mandela partially further blamed some of the chiefs as the main culprits behind the illegal mining activities in the country.
He intimated that instead of protecting what their predecessors left for them, they rather go waywards and destroy them instances he mentioned galamsey activities and unnecessary sales lands to people.
Mandela took the opportunity to advise Kingmakers to be on alert to probe prospective chiefs.
If those people are seen to be not self sufficient or have no resources that they would use to develop their towns, but rather would rely on stool properties those people be disqualified.
Even if they are on the stools and fully gazzeted and found to be commercializing the stool properties those chiefs should be made to distool themselves for the sack of protecting stool properties for future generation.
