{"id":95518,"date":"2025-09-24T04:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=95518"},"modified":"2025-09-24T04:41:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:41:00","slug":"if-mahama-wont-fix-galamsey-ghana-is-hopeless-senyo-hosi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=95518","title":{"rendered":"If Mahama won\u2019t fix galamsey, Ghana is hopeless \u2013 Senyo Hosi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senyo Hosi of the One Ghana Movement and the Media Coalition Against Galamsey says Ghana is losing hope in the fight against illegal mining.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Joy News\u2019 PM Express on September 23, he said leadership has failed to act decisively. \u201cIf this president will not do it, then we are, we are hopeless.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the country had once looked to the previous administration for results. <\/p>\n

\u201cBecause, first of all, I actually thought that former President Akufo-Addo should have been the one man to have fixed this problem, because he wasn\u2019t standing for election anymore. He should have left with his name high, but he didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

The call for urgent action follows a warning issued by the Ghana Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference on September 18. In a pastoral message, the bishops asked President John Mahama to declare a state of emergency in galamsey areas. <\/p>\n

They said the menace \u201cravages our rivers and forests, poisons our soil, endangers public health, corrupts governance, erodes our moral fibre, and extinguishes livelihoods.\u201d <\/p>\n

They stressed that it \u201cis not a routine challenge to be managed with half-measures; it is a national emergency requiring decisive, extraordinary response.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read also: Gov\u2019t not taking galamsey fight seriously \u2013 Cadman Mills<\/p>\n

Mr Hosi insisted that President Mahama must not ignore the crisis. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis President is a one-term president, if for nothing at all. One of your closest people died. Dr Omane Boamah is not a friend to the president; it\u2019s his brother, one of his closest confidants. <\/p>\n

\u201cMister President, if you can look at those children, Yaw, his wife and all of them and still be superintending this thing, then you\u2019re your own honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n

He questioned the lack of honour in the fight against galamsey. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe must be men with some little honour, even among thieves; there is honour, what is this? We lie!\u201d<\/p>\n

He also pointed to water quality data exposed by Joy News. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is the turbidity that Joy News found, Kwanyarko? It is at 94,800 NTU now, when last year we were told that it was 14,000, and all of us got up. In that same facility, the same central region, in a different plant, it was 14,000\u2026our politicians are damn liars.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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