<\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\nHe urged all individuals, especially Chiefs, MMDCEs and the general public, to join forces with government in its bid to protect the waterbodies.<\/p>\n
He reiterated government\u2019s commitment to the ban on small-scale mining and expressed that government, through the Community Mining Scheme and other innovations, will transform the small-scale mining sector.<\/p>\n
“We should take full responsibility of protecting Ghana\u2019s river bodies. We have roles to play including MMDCEs and we must all commit to protecting our waterbodies.<\/p>\n
There are suggestions for government to close down small-scale mining activities but we are aware of the number of job opportunities created in the small-scale mining sector.”<\/p>\n
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The DCE for Ellembelle District, Kwasi Bonzo said the people of Ellembelle will not sit down aloof and watch others destroy their livelihoods.<\/p>\n
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DCE for Nzema East, Dorcas Amoah commended the government for the Community Mining scheme in the area, revealing that many lives have been impacted positively by the innovative mining scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Felix Cofie Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, George Mireku Duker, has noted that the return of the Ankobra River and other waterbodies to their pure status is a reflection of government’s commitment to the fight against illegal mining. According to him, the progress made in the turbidity level of the waterbodies is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":274497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,114,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-general-news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-02-17-at-8.24.15-AM-jpeg.webp?fit=1080%2C719&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}