{"id":98496,"date":"2025-10-14T14:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=98496"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:22:51","slug":"galamsey-fuelling-defiance-and-truancy-among-students-chass-president-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=98496","title":{"rendered":"Galamsey fuelling defiance and truancy among students \u2013 CHASS president warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'>\n                <div class=\"twp-read-time\">\n                \t<i class=\"booster-icon twp-clock\"><\/i> <span>Read Time:<\/span>2 Minute, 18 Second                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div><div>\n<p>The National President of the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), Reverend Father Stephen Owusu Sekyere, has stated that illegal mining, also known as galamsey, is not only degrading the environment but also eroding the moral fabric of young people, leading to widespread truancy and defiance among students.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview, Rev. Fr. Sekyere revealed that in several galamsey-affected areas, including parts of Manso in the Ashanti Region, schools are struggling to maintain attendance and discipline.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/REV-STUDENT.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to put those schools (names) here, but the fact is that we have students who are involved in galamsey,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the various schools in the galamsey areas \u2014 Manso area and all those places \u2014 school reopens and students really don\u2019t come to school early. Some of them will come to school after a month, some of them after two months, and the kind of indiscipline they also exhibit in schools is very alarming.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He further disclosed that illegal miners have encroached on school lands in some communities, forcing school authorities to operate in unsafe conditions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIn some areas, galamsey is also encroaching on school land here and there, so we deemed it as a concern and we needed to talk about it so that authorities would do something about it for us \u2014 so that the future of these youth would be secured,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The CHASS President lamented that many students involved in galamsey return to school with destructive habits and lifestyles that disrupt teaching and learning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cSome of them are involved anyway, so they take long in coming, and because of what they do and the lifestyle over there, they come to school and some of them are doing drugs that they do \u2014 really destroying their lives,\u201d he revealed. \u201cWe see it as a very serious concern. Because you know, if you put students in school and then because some of them are involved in galamsey they are not really coming to school, it makes teaching and learning very difficult. The teacher will be there, students won\u2019t come in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rev. Fr. Sekyere stressed that the situation threatens the future of Ghana\u2019s youth and called for urgent government intervention.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed support for calls for a possible state of emergency to be declared in illegal mining zones to restore order and safeguard the country\u2019s human capital.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/STATE-EMERGENCY.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cSo, as conference, we also try to add our voice to the authorities to do something about it in a very urgent manner,\u201d he urged. \u201cIf the government sees that to be something that is very important to do, why not? They should go ahead and do it because we have to secure the future of this country. 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Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), Reverend Father Stephen Owusu Sekyere, has raised serious concerns over the impact of illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, on education in affected 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