Galamsey has become worse – Acting Chief Justice

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  • DON’T TRUST POLITICIANS, INVEST IN GOD 3 months ago

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  • jj 3 months ago

    THEN CALL A STATE OF EMERGENCY

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  • EMP 3 months ago

    Repent and stop your attacks against Islam..

  • Alkabulan 3 months ago

    There's nothing to repent for Islamic.

  • TWEAA DC 3 months ago

    WHAT ABOUT MINING IN OUR RIVERS MR CHIEF JUSTICE?...TWEAA.

  • ARE WE PAYING THE BLUE WATER GUARDS FOR NOTHING? 3 months ago

    MAHAMA IS USING TAX PAYERS MONEY TO PAY NDC FOOL SOLDERS CALLING THEMSELVES BLUE WATER GUARDS FOR DOING NOTHING.

  • TWEAA DC 3 months ago

    WHICH BLUE WATER ARE THEY GUARDING?...RIVERS TANO, ANKOBRA, PRA, AYENSU, ODA, BIRIM OR THE ALMIGHTY VOLTA RIVER?...TWEAA.

  • ARE WE PAYING THE BLUE WATER GUARDS FOR NOTHING? 3 months ago

    MAHAMA IS USING TAX PAYERS MONEY TO PAY NDC FOOL SOLDERS CALLING THEMSELVES BLUE WATER GUARDS FOR DOING NOTHING.

  • Nana TRUMU TRUMU Addo 3 months ago

    State of emergency is the only solution

  • Mr. Smith 3 months ago

    JM's statement on the state of emergency was highly hypocritical.

  • Kwaku Tee 3 months ago

    The only reason why NDC Followers are so much in love of Justice Baffoe Bonnie ,is bcoz of his brother of Radio Gold.He may disappoint them if they are banging their hopes on him.He has his own mind and will not follow that s ...
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  • MAHAMAs 2ND TERM IS A WASTE OF EVERYBODYS TIME BIRH NDC AND GHANAS 3 months ago

    Nothing is working. Everything is imported including refugees!

  • Nikko 3 months ago

    Stop smoking that wee! The exchange rate for the dollar today is Ghc12.00, not Ghc17.60 when your criminal bastards were ruling

  • A Ghanaian. 3 months ago

    Go to any bank and get me ghc 12 to i dollar Kwasea. Nothing is working is all 419. Lies lies lies. You fool soldiers are blindly supporting the dead goat

  • fool 3 months ago

    No wonder NPP took exchange rate from 3.50 to 17.60 fools like you voted for such useless party LOL

  • CITIZEN 3 months ago

    1 dollar was 14.72 cedis on Jan 7 2025. Pls go and check. We are in early days of new government so don't use the dollar as your main performance. Previous government thought they had stabilized the cedi in their first term b ...
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  • John 3 months ago

    Thanks CITIZENS .Many followers of NDC are illiterates or semi-illiterates. Their leaders are always pushing lies down their brains and they accept it.The same way they are going round saying Bawumia had 38.1% instead of 42.7 ...
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  • NDC PROPAGANDA MACHINATIONS AT WORK 3 months ago

    @NIKKO,
    WHY DO YOU WANT TO TELL LIES? AT THE TIME NDC TOOK OVER POWER $1 HAD BEEN BROUGHT DOWN TO 14 CEDIS, BUT NDC TOOK IT UP AGAIN TO 16 CEDIS BEFORE FORCING IT DOWN ARTIFICIALLY TO 10 CEDIS, BUT BECAUSE IT WAS ARTIFICIAL, ...
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  • Kai nyame. 3 months ago

    Shame on you fool.

  • Opoku Mensah 3 months ago

    Mr President, we have reached and even exceeded our last resort. Please declare a state of emergency over Galamsey. Our virgin forests are on the brink of extinction. Please, Mr President, we need rapid intervention to salvag ...
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  • Koti 3 months ago

    Have you heard anything about the Blue Water Guard lately? It was a ploy for the party's unemployed youth to collect lalasu lala at mining sites. From a reliable source, some NDC apparatchiks in parts of Ashanti region have d ...
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  • Kweku 3 months ago

    Ghanaian politicians, NDC and NPP, can't stop galamsey because their party members are the ones engaged in the illegal gold mining activities and they are afraid to stop them

  • Anane 3 months ago

    Massa, don't play the both sides game here. You didn't say the same when Akufo-Addo was in power. NPP isn't in power. Address the people in power. Anaa you fear him/them?

  • CITIZEN 3 months ago

    @Anane, please we've seen both parties do same. He is admitting NDC too has failed us

  • Kojo Kyeremeh 3 months ago

    Oyiwa, from the horse's own mouth. Loot and share people.

  • Abelenkpe Mayor 3 months ago

    Everything Akuffo Addo did, It going to be worse under JM

  • Achakanapaya 3 months ago

    Ghanaweb is one of the evil tool for the npp. The acting CJ never said Galamsay is worse under NDC.
    Why is npp talking after 8 years in power??
    Npp is a criminal organization who are murderers, hypocrites, thieves and lair ...
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  • Anane 3 months ago

    Why is NDC talking after being in power for 30 of the 60 something years of out national life? Mutumbanza!

  • Nii 3 months ago

    @ Achakanpaya
    Justice Baffoe Bonnie is not NDC Supporter as you've been made to believe. He will never trade his 40 plus yrs professional experience for a Cheap NDC I.D. Card. The man is going to tell you ppl the truth wh ...
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  • Kai nyame. 3 months ago

    Listen to your useless name, who cares if you sniff his urine.

  • Alan 3 months ago

    That’s why you be the Bossu. When they bring the culprits jail them well well. The noice should reduce kakraa bossu

  • Nana 3 months ago

    IT YOUR OWN PARTY MASTER WHEN EVER YOU MEET YOUR BOSS TELL IN HIS FACE. DONT GO TO WA AND SAY IT BECAUSE HE IS NOT AROUND

  • Nii 3 months ago

    The problem is this country is not galamsey Mr Chief Justice. Our politicians are just using us to gain attention. The current government did it while in opposition and now opposition is also doing same.

  • Coach 3 months ago

    "Galamsey has become worse” – the Acting CJ says. But
    bold claims need bold data – particularly from the CJ himself. Without EVIDENCE , it risks sounding like rhetoric, not solution.

  • CITIZEN 3 months ago

    One evidence is that Kwanyako water works has been shut down because the turbidity level of the Ayesu river has worsened. This happened just in August and there is still no pipe borne water in Kwanyako/Swedru and their enviro ...
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  • asonaba asiedu 3 months ago

    can you imagine lapdog torkonoo criticising akuffo addo the same way back in the days? this shows the judiciary is truly independent under mahama.

  • Can not work. 3 months ago

    Galamsey tools and machines are all over for sale on the streets of Kumasi and other mining town in Ghana. Excavators and water pumps are for rent and for sale all over.Unregisted heavy equipment all over,so how can you fight ...
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  • HARD -Talk 3 months ago

    Hmmm, the political Galamsey needs radical political approach. Indeed, Mr Bole President, with his unfortunate deliberately decision making, is on the edge of failing Ghanaians, hence NDC shall suffer an irreparable damage if ...
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  • Barko osae twum 3 months ago

    Its about time the president JDM rise up to be bold and seen to be taking effective action in address this issue of galamsey. Was is the reason why he cant declare a state of emergency across the nation on sites that havent b ...
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  • Holy Sinner 3 months ago

    Thank you Sir, well said. It seems to me President Mahama is SLACKING. Thus reminds of the later parts of King Solomons(In the Bible not Osei Tutu of Kumasi)reign. Mahama wake up and LISTEN.

  • Mr no nonsense 3 months ago

    It was started during their time,and they used it for campaign,now is been continued and has gotten out of hands,where's the dead goat,drunkard , womanizer Mahama,the case at bawko has worsend and now another one has started ...
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  • Me 2 months ago

    You sound very foolish like your stupid father. Kwasia what didn't we see in the last eight yrs? Mmoa

  • Martin Kreisler 3 months ago

    Well done your Honour.
    You have spoken unadultrated words of wisdom and truth to the Government in Power, even though your position has not been confirmed.
    This is very much unlike the other(s) who occupied the seat before ...
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  • Mensa 3 months ago

    Those who are surprised are those who don't know the Ndc they voted for or pretended not to know. Once a ... always a ... Fill in the blanks if you want to

  • Helen 3 months ago

    I regret voting for a dishonest president. I thought he had repented. This government may be the last Constitutional government in this fourth Republic. They think we have forgotten what they said before the elections or they ...
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  • Jones 3 months ago

    Thank you ACJ

  • Erik 3 months ago

    The galamsay menace has reached its last resort of harming Ghanaians so mr president invoke the ban on galamsay in all forest reserves

  • Kaklo 3 months ago

    You're Acting oo
    Be careful
    Speak to facts only
    Things have improved

  • WATCH OUT FOR YOUR TURN 3 months ago

    MAHAMA DOES NOT CARE ABOUT GALAMSEY ANYMORE! HE HAS GOT WHAT HE LIARED FOR, HE LIARED TO BECOME A PRESIDENT IN ORDER TO ENJOY. HE HAS SECURED A GOOD CONTRACT FOR HIS BROTHER. HE HAS GIVEN HIS CHILDREN WHAT THEY NEED, HE DOES ...
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  • Truth stands 3 months ago

    We don't know the importance of rivers and water in Ghana otherwise a few people in Ghana cannot out of greed damage our forests and river bodies.
    If our forefathers and our ancestors (who are more intelligent than today's g ...
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  • Lucky 3 months ago

    The president has already said the LI is going to be repealed.

  • TORTOISE 3 months ago

    Going to repeal.....Words of a hollow thinker
    Going to..... bring home home the displaced Gonjas

    Has repealed.....Words of action...Words of the rightful thinker

    Has brought home the displaced Gonjas...Words that bring ...
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  • jjjjjjjjjjjjyyyyyyyyylkkkkkkkk 2 months ago

    YOU FIRST SUPPORTED IT BECAUSE IT WAS NPP TIME . NOW YOU HAVE COME TO YOUR SENSES

  • Okatakyie 2 months ago

    As Acting CJ and mindful of the serious undermining of the Judiciary, the topic most engaging to you is galamsey! What a coward.

  • WITHDRAW RECOGNITION,PROSECUTE THEM-Ghanani 2 months ago

    Any chief on whose land galamsey is taking place should have his recognition as chief by the government withdrawn with immediate effect. In addition to that that chief should be prosecuted for the destruction of the enviro ...
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  • Jack 2 months ago

    Eiii tis man, you don't want to chop your CJ anaa??

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  • Francis Boateng 2 months ago

    All President Mahama knows is money.He is happy buying gold from galamseyers than stopping the menace.Meanwhile in opposition he and his stoogies were on President Akuffo Addo calling for state of emergency..Ghana needs so ...
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  • Cc 2 months ago

    Woow! Such a truthful man.