Residents Invoke Curses On Akufo-Addo, MP, Others For Introducing Galamsey In Their Community

Some youth at Atronsu in the Bibiani Anwiaso Bekwai Municipality of the Western North region say they don’t community in their hometown as proposed by government.

They have invoked curses on President Akufo-Addo, their MP, Alfred Obeng-Boateng and any person of authority who is spearheading the agenda.

Expressing their displeasure over the development on the streets Thursday, December 1, 2022, the youth said the community mining is galamsey in disguise a.d they will not sit unconcerned for their water bodies to be polluted and lands destroyed.

They have also invoked curses on anybody that dares step foot on their land to indulge in any galamsey activity.

The youth say they want other job opportunities apart from galamsey and demonstrated their displeasure on the proposal.

One of the protestors who spoke with Onua News said “Nana Addo, you said you came for the poor but now you want to take our daily.bread from us. Our forefathers knew there was gold in our land but they never did galamsey. Chairman Wontumi, you and your children are eating and drinking in Kumasi yet you want our land to be used for galamsey.”

“Nana Addo, you told us to get ourselves involved in Planting for Food and Jobs. You gave us oil palm and cocoa seedlings and if after planting them you want them to be cleared, then what’s the sense in the investment you made.

“Our MP Alfred Obeng-Boateng, you also gave me some seedlings and the very place I planted my oil palm is where you’re asking them to come and mine. In simple terms, we don’t want any community mining, galamsey or whatever it is called,” another youth entreated.