New galamsey hotspots keep emerging because the response has not matched the scale of the problem.
Galamsey gold is helping the government pursue its policy objective of building foreign reserves. A truly aggressive crackdown on galamsey would reduce gold supply in the short term and complicate that policy objective.
The state buys gold from the small scale sector at market prices, absorbs losses in the process, and builds reserves, while the environmental destruction continues.
By the way, what happened to the plan to establish permanent military bases at major galamsey hotspots? Has the military been deployed to those hotspots?
The government hardly provides any meaningful public updates on the fight against galamsey anymore. You might think the fight has been won.
If they had won, you would have used a photograph of the captain, Harry Souttar. There is absolutely no well-intentioned reason for choosing this guy’s picture other than to make the Black player in a predominantly white team the face of the defeat and subject him to cyberbullying.