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Mar
Galamsey Remains A Major Problem – Akufo-Addo Wails Despite a spirited fight against illegal small-scale mining in the country on his assumption of office as President in 2017, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has admitted that the practice remains a major problem. Addressing the Eighth Parliament on Tuesday, March 9, President Akufo-Addo said his call for a national discourse on illegal small-scale mining, at least, yielded results. “Yes, in the last four years so much has been achieved in cleaning up this industry, training miners in the best methods of mining, introducing community mining, enacting additional regulatory legislation,” he admitted. “But the reality…