EPA Anti-Galamsey Operation: Journalists in critical condition after attack

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  • Kwaku 1 month ago

    There are to many weapons in the hands of these galamesayers. The country is sitting on a time bomb. The earlier this is nib in the budget the better for us all.

  • Buddy 1 month ago

    Kid's gloves treatment of galamseyers is emboldening them. The government's deliberate FAILURE to go after kingpins is at the root cause of all these. Blame the government. No one else.

  • Ghanaman 1 month ago

    The whole EPA, journalists, armed military personnel and security agents, fleeing from galamseyers?
    What a disgrace! This is a simple confirmation of who is in control of the situation in the country....the government or th ...
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  • prophet mohammed was a sick dog 1 month ago

    Say no to islam and convert to a real religion.
    Allah is satanic scum and qur'an is toilet paper.......Search online for ways to move away from evil islam..... You can join ex-muslim groups online and be safe. ...
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  • prophet mohammed was a sick dog 1 month ago

    Say no to islam and convert to a real religion.
    Allah is satanic scum and qur'an is toilet paper.......Search online for ways to move away from evil islam..... You can join ex-muslim groups online and be safe... ...
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  • Yaa Aboagyewaa 1 month ago

    which one is the real religion.

  • J 1 month ago

    Militias? Indeed they are.

  • XYZ 1 month ago

    So Mr. Airbus John Mahama, the country is stiil not in the state of declaring state of emergency. Until when will this fool president know that the lives of Ghanaians are in his hand.

  • Akosua Obuo 1 month ago

    WE KNOW WHO IS THE PROBLEM NOW

    GOD MOVES IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY. HIS WONDERS TO PERFORM. NOW THE GALAMSEYERS WHO WERE TOLD THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE MINING AND SPOILING OUR RIVERS ARE DOING SERIOUS DAMAGE NON STOP. THEY ARE READ ...
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  • Kwaku Tee 1 month ago

    President John Dramani Mahama and his NDC Advisors shd be blamed for that attack.They feel declaring State of Emergency will make the NDC unpopular,which will make them lose power.

  • Declare State of Emergency 1 month ago

    If it is an NPP stronghold then the soldiers should shoot inside their middle with machine guns to kill at least 20,000 of them. After all they are NPP stupid supporters

  • GH8 1 month ago

    Odwan ba meeeeee. Go to these Galamsey sites and see the number of boys from the northern part of the country who are there for the hard and dirty work. Go to Prestea and its enclaves and you would know that the area is infes ...
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  • Kofi Banza 1 month ago

    Just hearsay, Asante man. You have never visited a galamsay site, how would you know. You think a galamsay site in the Asantehenes backyard will be controlled by outsiders?

  • Kk 1 month ago

    If your imbecile parents are not stupid fools i dont think you will say this. Gyimifo

  • Opoku 1 month ago

    What is your point?You are a tribal bigot and a scumbag who is not fit to live.

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  • GH8 1 month ago

    This is getting scary and if we sit on our butt we might have galamsey terrorists on our hands

  • Tquiy 1 month ago

    We already do!

  • Steve Kaye London 1 month ago

    Mahama has taken galamsey to another level by establishing the galamseybod headed by Sammy Gyamfi. He won't declare a state of emergency because he is benefiting from the menace which is why he said that whether it is legal ...
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  • Broni Panayoti 1 month ago

    Only declaration of a state of emergency to shoot on sight of these illegal miners would solve this problem. Government must act now before the situation generates into war. Where some areas in Ghana will become a no-go-area ...
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  • TRUTH 1 month ago

    THE EIGHT GALLANT MEN WHO PERISHED IN THE HELICOPTER CRASH
    I HOPE THEY DIDNT LOSE THEIR LIVES IN VAIN??????
    I KEEP ON SAYING THAT WE NEED AN ALL OUT WAR ON GALAMSEYERS. THE GALAMSEYERS ARE NOT STRONGER THAN OUR MILITARY. RE ...
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  • Aba Sam 1 month ago

    Military men running away from galamseyers. Why not use the gun. After all, they are armed and the military are also armed. Is that how far things are going?

  • Ghanaman 1 month ago

    The galamsayers have now become like the drug cartel militias in South America, and the government is still trying to handle them with kids' gloves.

  • TRUTH 1 month ago

    THE EIGHT GALLANT MEN WHO PERISHED IN THE HELICOPTER CRASH
    I HOPE THEY DIDNT LOSE THEIR LIVES IN VAIN??????
    I KEEP ON SAYING THAT WE NEED AN ALL OUT WAR ON GALAMSEYERS. THE GALAMSEYERS ARE NOT STRONGER THAN OUR MILITARY. RE ...
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  • Ruthan 1 month ago

    John Mahama will soon make Ghana a Colombia or Haiti. We told voters this but they abstained and allowed those NDC senseless followers to bring back wicked very Corrupt Mahama. He's now showing is true colours.

  • Abu Nzema 1 month ago

    How???

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  • Observer 1 month ago

    Which MP asked the community to attack them this time. Your okro mouths. When the Asutifu MP intervened to stop blood she'd, you people miss constructed their intervention

  • Nii 1 month ago

    Idiotic Fool. You still don't see that Collins Dauda is engaged in Galamsey. That Foolish MP was aware and he wanted to use his position to free them.

  • Abugre 1 month ago

    This what the president is waiting to see, I guess, before declearing a state of emergency.

  • John,Tema 1 month ago

    Mahama is interested in having power than the health of the entire nation.His aim is to make Ibrahim Mahama, the richest Billionaire on this planet.When he loses power he can't achieve that goal.

  • Ys 1 month ago

    I am regretting voting for mahama. Seriously he is a menace.

    Youth atrack and burn police station, no action. Galamseyers attack soldiers, no action.

    What the hell is going on? How much more useless can a president b ...
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  • Ozymandias 1 month ago

    It should be a shoot and kill policy by the government, else the Galamsey menace will never be stopped. That is the language the Galamseyers will understand.

  • Samuel Hanson 1 month ago

    If Ghanaian soldiers know how to make a coup

  • Apollo 1 month ago

    We cannot fight galamsey with our bare hands. The galamseyers have sophisticated weapons and are ready to fight whoever prevents them from destroying our environments. The soldiers should shoot and kill them otherwise we wil ...
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  • NDC is resetting Ghana indeed 1 month ago

    If we're not careful, Ghana will be in tatters by the end of NDC's rule. Let's pray the galamsey doesn't turn the country into a failed state

  • Achakanapaya 1 month ago

    There should be shoot and kill this time around seriously.
    Mr President please wake up.

  • Obroniba 1 month ago

    We must shoot to kill these terrorists or they kill us for their foolishness and gross stupidity. You have prominent people in that region who have interest in the menace and hence cannot talk but want to be seen as king of k ...
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  • Kwame Peter 1 month ago

    Galamseyers donated 2,000 pickups to NDC for their campaign so their party is in power,case close.

  • Kona 1 month ago

    Sampson Ayinene and M. Azure who made a lot of noise about militias under Akuffo are now quiet despite the glaring operations of militias in the galamsey areas. Posterity shall judge all

  • Ataa Obeng site 19 Tema 1 month ago

    At this point state of emergency is needed Mr, president the people are not just galamseyers but terrorists as well

  • Koti 1 month ago

    Are we safe, military fleeing from galamseyers? This is just the tip of the iceberg, we are sitting on a very dangerous time bomb. Wrongdoers are not punished in Ghana and that has brought us here. What happened to those civi ...
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  • Percy 1 month ago

    It is time to shoot and kill.

  • Tosh 1 month ago

    Army and National Security running away? It is now an armed insurgency, which we knew it would become.

  • WOULD YOU FORO 1 month ago

    During Ex- President Nana ADDO term in office, we didn’t experience such problems. Now JM is in power, you see his NDC foot soldiers are engaging in the galamsy activities? You can’t stop them right? You yourself nearly l ...
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  • Yaw in uk 1 month ago

    This is just the beginning. Evil monsters, you will all die with water poisoning. God curse Ghana.

  • Frank Talk 1 month ago

    Keep on treating these bastard nation wreckers with kid gloves soon the Cubs will grow into lions, then we'll see how you will handles them. We are grooming our own Boko Haram. I pray to God am wrong.

  • Ojatanaa 1 month ago

    GAF are only good for nothing slapping and beating unarmed citizens now it comes to the real fight they are running away

  • Truth stands 1 month ago

    Hmmmmmm!
    This is a big big of the decade!
    Some big men are turning turning this country upside down!
    What???????
    A whole government apparatus can't contain these vagabonds. This is how Boko Haram started . The populace ...
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  • FunnyGhana 1 month ago

    The only thing these galamsay people will ever understand is brute force, shooting and bombing their sites. Short of that unless the gold runs out we will forever be just talking and eating and drinking heavy metals

  • Bro kwesi 1 month ago

    Hmmm Mahama do something.

  • Tquiy 1 month ago

    We are playing with this galamsey issue........

  • K Tsin 1 month ago

    Eii so what is happening?

  • Edmond Amponsah 1 month ago

    What has this country turn to? Are we save again in this country? Look at what politics has turned us to. Today, if soldiers and police are ruining away from armed criminal gangs destroying our environment, then who can stop ...
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  • Ayub 1 month ago

    Declare state of emergency now P. JDM

  • Owuomposuro 1 month ago

    Eii Ghana, the so called “Meema ma” soldiers and the police are running away from this village boys then we are not safe in this country. Shame on the police and the soldiers. They are walking around on the streets as if ...
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  • Kwame panin 1 month ago

    na who cause am

  • Rev Paul. 1 month ago

    Govt must ban small scale mining. We are getting to point where illegal miners will start attacking the military personnel and the police. The situation is getting out of hand. NDC govt should be serious otherwise these illeg ...
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  • OSAFO KANTANKA 1 month ago

    I am afraid these Galamsey “TERRORISTS” shouldn’t be treated with Kid gloves. Looks like an international team of players involved to Plunge Ghana into Chaos. The president should wage an all out WAR on these Criminals ...
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  • Ben k 1 month ago

    Mahama promise to give those arrested under the pevious government armnesty.
    Therefore,Leave them alone to do their galamsey work
    .

  • On your mark 1 month ago

    Do we have president in Ghana, and does the president care about us, does the president value money than the citizens, otherwise how come our *men* in uniform ran away.

  • JB 1 month ago

    If galamsey operators can chase away soldiers, then what happens when rebels attack us. Is Ghana becoming a weak state or banana Republic?

  • Kwame 1 month ago

    No one has the right to attack civil and public servants in the cause of their duty.
    Anyone who does so breaks the laws of Ghana and must be arrested and prosecuted.
    It's and act of preventing a civil or public officer fro ...
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  • Nelly 1 month ago

    The shoot & Kill bill is the best way to go.
    We should stop playing with FIRE mr President.
    Even if they’re your own people treat them like “Coke Cartels”.If we don’t implement the shoot & Kill bill very soon the Ga ...
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  • Kk 1 month ago

    You said nana adoo did not do anything on galamsay, face it alone , no sympathy from me koraaaa

  • IT IS NOW GHANA OR GALAMSAYERS - Ghanani 1 month ago

    The bottom line is Mahama has proved to be a weak president when it comes to stopping illegal mining[galamsey] in Ghana. Ghanaians must take the fight to the galamsayers themselves. It is now either Ghana or the galamsayers.

  • Opoku 1 month ago

    I am baffled. You had military and national security personnel with you but yet you had to run. Why could you not engage them?

  • Momo 1 month ago

    Ghana army are always overwhelmed by pity criminals and you expect this bunch to protect you from jihadist?

  • Kwame 1 month ago

    What the youth is doing is bad. But sucessive governments since 1992 have stolen from the people to build a false upper class who cobtribute nothing to the econony but live off looting state resources from taxes meant to prov ...
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  • Kwame 1 month ago

    The anger of the youth is justified. Too many of their colleagues have died trying to cross the sahara desert to get to "greener" pastures. The galamseyers should arm themselves fully and meet any coat wearing politician or t ...
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  • JJ KUFFOUR AKUFO ADDO 1 month ago

    President Mahama, with all due respect, you're annoying some us who convinced our family members in Ghana to vote for you. What kind of leadership is this?

  • Cc 1 month ago

    They said they'll stop galamsey in one week. What are they still saying? Is it not more than a week since they assumed power? Useless talks nkoaa

  • Coup 1 month ago

    So do you suggest that Mahama should be sacked and kotokoli Bawumia be brought as our president tomorrow 8/11/2025? Animal. Go and bath

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  • Nana Marfo 1 month ago

    This matcho men are the same ones politicians use
    Greedy bustards that the consequences we face wen we make everything easy n free

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  • Declare State of Emegency 1 month ago

    The soldiers should be told to shoot machine gun fire into the stomach of all those seen digging even the smallest hole in the villages. No.mercy. Fire gbigbigbigbigbi into their stomach. Even if your commander shout cease f ...
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  • Yooo 1 month ago

    GALAMSEY IS A RECIPE FOR CIVIL WAR
    Let us continue to keep the wild lion called Galamsey in the cage without proper resolution to dispose of it. What we are doing is breeding an uncontrollable disaster that will turn a beau ...
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  • Alidu 1 month ago

    Blame John Mahama should anyone of them dies. What is John Mahama interest for not declaring state of emergency.

  • Kojois 1 month ago

    Mahama govt. What do you expect. You promised them so why running away. Poor ndc

  • Tsotsoo 1 month ago

    My God!! Is that where it has come to?. This dirty game wants to take the lives of our Journalists, Soldiers and EPA staff. With God all things are possible. I wish the injured speedy recovery. Ghanaians who are involved in t ...
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  • KK 1 month ago

    IF YOU CANNOT EXCHANGE FIRE WITH THE CIVILIANS THEN WHY DO YOU INVOLVE MILITARY IN YOUR OPERATIONS. SINCE WHEN DOES THE CIVILIANS WITH WEAPONS BECOME MORE POWERFUL THAN THE MILITARY?

  • Minister A** 1 month ago

    Ghana military running away from armed galamseyers? Wow