Democracy has destroyed Ghana

The 1992 Constitution of Ghana was forced onto the good people of the nation by the Americans. They intended to keep Ghana under their feet and brush over the consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. European countries provide financial assistance to Ghana to compensate the West African country for 100% of profits taken abroad, with 20% of the profits given back. As long as the exploitation of Ghana is an overall financial gain, the balance sheet for the white man looks fine. Gradually, this traditional narrative begins to shift into negative financial, social, economic and strategic territory for Europeans, Russians, Chinese and the Americans.

The fight against Galamsey, illegal small-scale mining, has collapsed. Water bodies are polluted, and cocoa farms are affected along riverbanks. 8.200 hectars of precious forest land have already been destroyed. NAIMOS and EPA use their powers alongside military interventions to destroy machinery and arrest people involved. Media coverage is filled with images of burnt excavators and arrested illegal miners, local and foreigners alike. After their arrest, voters cheer as action has been deployed. What has not been deployed is a lasting solution to the ongoing destruction of the land.

District Assemblies and their MMDCEs are personal profiteers of galamsey. Local youth see this as the only source of income, and the threat not to vote again for a certain party at the next general election leaves the door wide open for further destruction of the land. What could be solved at the local level at the shortest possible time because of party politics becomes a national issue. Over a generation, galamsey has become more and more serious (recognised by the Oxford English Dictionary OED in 1981). For three decades since the reign of J.J. Rawlings ended, as a military dictator was replaced by political parties, the problem has worsened like cancer destroying a healthy body; alongside corruption and mismanagement.

Doctors use conventional measures to root out cancer or resort to radical treatment with chemicals when this is the only way to save a patient`s life. As galamsey is directly connected to political parties, the current approach of the central government is not even close to conventional measures but needs radical political Democracy