Chief Executive Officer of the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), Prof. Nana Ama Browne Klutse, has reaffirmed government’s determination to reclaim and rehabilitate landscapes ravaged by illegal mining, describing the effort as critical to restoring Ghana’s ecological integrity and environmental future.
Vast stretches of the country’s forests, farmlands, and river systems have been stripped bare by galamsey operations, endangering biodiversity, contaminating water sources, and threatening livelihoods and public health.
Launching a 2,000-hectare pilot reclamation project at Gyaman Nkwanta in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti Region, Prof. Klutse said the government remains resolute in reversing the environmental devastation and restoring the nation’s degraded ecosystems.
The Akwamuhene of Bekwai Traditional Council who doubled as the chairman of the occasion, Nana Ntiamoah Amankuo ll, stated it clearly without doubt that; “may this reclamation be not a deceit to we the people of Amensie Central as the previous government officials led by the former CEO of Forestry Commission; late Sir John who were assigned to this same project at Apramprama forest rather turned it to vast forest devastation and if that should happened, it will be an eye for an eye and a boot for a boot”.
The CEO of LOGIST Group of Company, Mr Daniel Doe Tamaklo in an exclusive interview with Obuasi Tv Chukwu Joseph during the launch reassured the public that, their purpose here is to restore the devastated galamsey lands to help yield in cocoa, coconut and other agricultural activities.
He again cautioned the chiefs who are the custodian of the lands, District Assembly and individuals to be partakers of the land and also refrain from engaging in the Sankofa mining activities which will not benefit their vision and mission hence making it a time wasting, loss of logistics and consumables
Source: Obuasi Tv
Afful Chukwu Joseph