Galamsey, cronyism makes us talk more but act less

The horror scene, a horrible sight of fishes struggling to die in muddy and poisonous waters while a Ghanaian sit by, ready to feast on poisoned carcas. Yesu Kristo! Laahilahilala.... mansa musa writes ✍️

Everywhere I turn to look and listen these days, the heated conversation or argument is centred on or about the almighty galamsey, also known as illegal mining. Radio and TV studios are saturated with a gathering of pretentious Ghanaian hotheads talking over each other or talking in parallel to one another with no feel or sign of any convergence. Blame will be apportioned, but no one ready to accept responsibility. The present and future danger of uncontrolled mining activities is clear for all to attest.

We are all bearing witnesses to the ongoing devastation of forests, big and small. The poisoned and / or contaminated rivers. The destructions and devastation are real and clear. Ghanaians know what exactly is happening. The dangers and everything emanating from this careless and reckless treatment of our local and immediate ecology is all well captured in our minds, but what we seem not to know is who the culprits are. Who is doing the damage is seemingly and strangely unknown to us.

Perhaps the culprits are aliens from outer space? Or, as we Ghanaians believe so much in the supernatural and in supetnature, can we say our muddied, contaminated, and poisoned rivers are the work of non-human actors.(as pastors are seen praying and invoking the spiritual powers that be to come to our aid). Some things do not add up.Tomorrow and the next day, the same two-faced, double-speaking charlatans.

The same spineless, shameless hypocrites and cowards. The same corrupted minds will be paraded in radio and tv studios, there to blow the same hot air about the menace of galamsey and trust me, the arguments and counter will go on with everyone agreeing we are in trouble but pretending not to know who are causers of the our troubles, the ongoing horror reality.

The horror scene, a real site of fishes struggling to die in muddy filth while a Ghanaian sit by, ready to feast on poisoned carcas. If this is not madness, if this is not ill-mindedness, a display of the black primitive nature which is yet to accept and to assimilate 21st century civilisation. Sad, but someone got to say it.