The Responsible Small-scale Miners Association of Ghana has officially informed the Ghana Police Service of its intention to stage a protest on Friday, October 11, 2024.
The protest is in response to Organised Labour’s industrial action calling for a ban on small-scale mining as part of the fight against illegal mining, commonly called galamsey.
While the association acknowledges that some illegal miners have caused significant harm to waterbodies, it believes that Organised Labour’s strike is politically motivated, and not the right solution to the menace.
In an interview with Citi News on Tuesday, October 8, the General Secretary of the Responsible Small Scale Miners Association, Mark Conduah, expressed the group’s opposition to any attempts by Organised Labour to shut down their legal source of livelihood.
“We have also communicated our minds to Organised Labour and they are not willing to listen to us. So we are also coming out in our numbers to demonstrate against Organised Labour that they are not more Ghanaians than us so they cannot take away our livelihoods.
“So we are going to demonstrate. We are going to show them that if they are working and earning their livelihoods from the government payrolls, we also deserve to mine and mine responsibly and earn a decent living out of mining.
“We are converging in Accra and there is going to be a massive demonstration against Organised Labour.”
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