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Galamsey clampdown should target investors - former Chamber of Mines boss

Speaking on Saturday, Joyce Aryee said those engage in galamsey are financed and equipped by investors who must be unmasked and prosecuted.

She said the labourers in the gold value chain are destroying the nation's river bodies and cocoa farms because they want to make a living.

According to her, many of the labourers engage in galamsey are not from the mining areas. She said some are foreigners while others come from different parts of the country.

Mrs Aryee told TV3's "Hot Issues" that the government must take a serious view on the issuance of mining license and monitoring.

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“What it will be is to get the Minerals Commission to take the whole issue of licensing and monitoring very seriously,” she said.

She also said mining cannot be banned because almost every gadget found in homes and offices are products of mining, stressing that  'the business cannot be stopped.'

The government has ordered illegal miners to stop and vacate the sites. After this announcement, over 500 excavators seized from the illegal mining sites.

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