The government of Ghana is getting close to
pass a new Minerals and Mining Act that seeks to fully regulate the sector
could help to effectively deal with illegal mining in the country.
The revised law, GhanaWeb reports, will
empower courts to confiscate equipment seized from illicit miners. Currently
the state has not been able to hold on to them because existing regulations
don’t support that.
At its peak, an estimated 50,000 foreign
workers, mainly Chinese, were operating unlawfully in the country. This
prompted the government to create a taskforce in May last year to tackle the
subject, and so avoid tension-generating issues, such as the massive
deportation of almost two hundred of Chinese nationals last year.
But illicit operations continue to be a major
problem in the Ashanti and Eastern regions of the country. According to Ghana
News Agency (GNA) indiscriminate digging of deep trenches in frantic search for
gold ore has wrecked most roads in the area. This has made especially difficult
for health professionals to reach those communities.
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