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My Galamsey Fight With Drones Was Shot Down – Inusah Fuseini

March 13, 2017
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A former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Inusah Fuseini has revealed that he did not get the necessary support from stakeholders when he tried use drones to wage a war on illegal mining in the country.

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Inusah Fuseini during his tenure promised to deplore drones in fighting the menace but the idea did not see the light of day.

Explaining his debacle on the Citi Breakfast Show on Monday, the former Minister said “we didn’t even deplore the drone” because “when I suggested the use of drone, I think heaven was breaking loose so it didn’t get the necessary support.”

Mr. Fuseini made the remark on the back of a hint by the current Minister of Lands and Forestry, Mr. John Peter Amewu to deploy similar technology in combating illegal mining in Ghana.

Mr. Amewu also promised to fix electronic trackers on earth moving equipment in order to track their activities and clamp them down if they are seen in mining areas.

Mr. Fuseini who is the Member for the Tamale Central constituency welcomed the idea and said it was a step in the right direction.

“…Drones were little creatures like toys which are manufactured to fly with cameras so when you deploy them, they will give you real time report about how galamsey activities are taking place. Indeed in Malaysia drones are used to track illegal logging in their forests.

Immediately a tree is felled and the drones are within the perimeter of that illegal activities is taking place, it sends real time pictures to a centre and it allows the centre to deploy investigators immediately to the site and there is a real possibility of arresting the person who had logged the tree.”

“To extend it to tractors means he [Peter Amewu] wants to know where the earth moving equipment are at any particular given time so that if they are in the mining areas he could reasonably say that these earth moving equipment are not doing the work for which they were imported into this country in order to descend on them.”

Concerted effort needed

The former Minister further called for concerted efforts from stakeholders in tackling illegal mining head on.

“You have to get the chiefs involved because there is no land in Ghana that is not owned by a traditional area or government. So if people can go on to lands with impunity then it means there is some form of connivance at that local level.

The assemblies must have the primary responsibility of protecting our water bodies, lands and natural resource. Then you look at the opinion leaders in the area. Civil society organizations must also help because our rivers are being polluted. We as a people must make a determination that we want to promote inter-generational equity, we can’t leave this country worse off than was given to us,” he added.

Ghana may son import water if galamsey is not stopped

A number of water treatment plants have been shut down across the country because their water sources have been polluted by activities of illegal miners.

According to the the Director for Natural Resources at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Carl Fiati, Ghana may soon import drinking water from neighbouring countries if illegal mining also known ‘galamsey’ is not checked.

“We anticipated this problem long time ago that it’s going to come a time when we continue the way we are going as a country, we are going to destroy all our water bodies and import water for drinking,” Mr. Fiati added.

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