Eco-Conscious Citizens condemn attack on Erastus Asare Donko…
Eco-Conscious Citizens, a Ghanaian environmental group, has condemned the latest assault on journalist Erastus Asare Donkor and his crew, who have been assaulted by closely armed males defending unlawful miners.
This incident has sparked severe nationwide safety considerations and highlighted the necessity for pressing authorities motion.
The group is urging the federal government to declare a state of emergency to sort out the devastating results of unlawful mining and ecocide in Ghana.
They imagine that the present state of affairs poses an existential menace to the nation’s water our bodies, forests, and farmlands, and that rapid motion is critical to stop a catastrophic consequence.
Eco-Conscious Citizens is asking on the federal government to deploy the Police and Military to take away all miners and mining tools from protected areas.
They additionally demand the repeal of L.I. 2462, which permits mining in protected forest reserves and the revocation of licenses granted for mining in these areas.
In a press release, Eco-Conscious Citizens emphasised, “We can’t stand idly by while non-public armies have been fashioned to implement ecocide and threaten the safety of the state… We should act now – earlier than our safety considerations worsen, and God forbid, lead to civil warfare.”
This name to motion underscores the pressing want for Ghana’s authorities to handle the environmental and nationwide safety disaster posed by unlawful mining.
Below is the total assertion:
Oct. 21 2024 Press Release
Eco-Conscious Citizens And Others Renew Call For A State Of Emergency
“The solely factor obligatory for the triumph of evil is for good males to do nothing.”
Eco-Conscious Citizens and different involved teams and residents urge the Government to declare a state of emergency and deal decisively with the unlawful mining and ecocide ravaging Ghana, earlier than we attain the purpose of no return.
We condemn the dastardly assault on Erastus Asare Donkor and his broadcast crew. It is disheartening to listen to that that they have been assaulted by closely armed males defending unlawful miners. This raises severe nationwide safety considerations. We can’t stand idly by while non-public armies have been fashioned to implement ecocide and threaten the safety of the state. We can’t by means of Government inaction head in the direction of a failed state.
We should act now – earlier than our safety considerations worsen, and God forbid, lead to civil warfare. Also of nice concern are experiences of nationwide safety operatives retreating as a result of the unlawful miners have superior weaponry.
We name on Organised Labour to offer the Government seven days to declare a state of emergency, failing which the nationwide strike will resume.
It is obvious that the revocation of L.I. 2462 can’t be handed inside this Parliament with out the President, Parliament or the Minister for the Environment resorting to different means inside their powers.
We face an existential menace from the poisoning of our water our bodies, and the destruction of our forests and farmlands. We additionally face severe nationwide safety considerations, which haven’t been sufficiently raised within the latest discourse on unlawful mining
Police and Military have to be deployed to take away all miners and mining tools from our water our bodies, forest reserves and farmlands.
Additionally, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should as a matter of urgency, start to robustly implement the restoration obligations inside its agreements with miners and likewise undertake the
Polluter Pays precept. This is critical to make sure the setting is reclaimed and restored after mining exercise, and our Food Sovereignty and Food Chain are protected.
We name on all political events and presidential aspirants to place Ghana first and signal as much as the calls for under, that are consistent with the Eco-Conscious Citizens Friends Of The Environment Manifesto, which is copied on the backside of this press launch:
* The declaration of a state of emergency consistent with part 31 and 31 (4) of the 1992 structure so as to combat the environmental terrorists.
* The repeal of L.I. 2462 and making certain that there isn’t a mining or logging in protected forest reserves or globally important biodiversity areas.
* The revocation of licences which have been granted for mining in forest reserves.
* An rapid pause to all Small scale/Community Mining and a halt to the issuance of recent licences.
* A sturdy and efficient investigation of all individuals named in Prof. Frimpong Boateng’s report.
It is pure wickedness to permit unlawful mining to thrive and refuse to pause small scale mining, which we aren’t monitoring, once we know that Ghana will get extra from remittances and non conventional exports, while ecocide from unregulated mining is inflicting a rise in kidney illness, cancers, neurological challenges, maternal deaths, nonetheless births, beginning defects, lack of livelihood of fishermen and over two million peasant farmers.
Unregulated mining is making a number of people wealthy, while poisoning us and destroying Ghana.
We thank Organised Labour for getting Government to purport to behave on some points environmental organisations have been campaigning on, equivalent to revoking L.I.2462.
However, there was little progress because the suspension of the National Strike. We subsequently urge Organised Labour to finish the suspension of the National Strike, if the federal government fails to institute a state of emergency inside seven days.
The assault on Erastus Asare Donkor and his crew highlights very clearly that the unlawful miners are emboldened, and just like the unlawful drug cartels of Latin America, will increase non-public armies to guard their prison enterprise.
The President, Parliament and the National Security equipment have to be resolute and decisive in coping with the environmental terrorists now!
God just isn’t mocked.
Voters must be cautious of events or individuals who’re reluctant to enroll to ending the continued ecocide.
Eco-Conscious Citizens Coordinator
NOTES
The Eco-Conscious Citizens Friends Of The Environment Manifesto
https://bit.ly/EcoConsciousCitizensManifesto
Eco-Conscious Citizens Friends Of The Environment Manifesto
1. Repeal EI144 and withdraw LI2462 inside first 6 months of administration.
2. Pause Community Mining and enshrine rights of communities to reject mining of their localities inside first six months of administration.
3. Ban single use plastics inside your time period.
4. Pass an Executive Instrument defending wetlands and different ecological websites and prohibiting entry for functions inconsistent with defending ecological websites inside the first six months of your administration.
Prohibit set up of utilities to wetlands and different ecological websites for dwelling homes and functions inconsistent with defending the stated websites inside the first six months.
5. Within the primary yr, cross a Legislative Instrument offering that if three or extra noise nuisance complaints are made in opposition to an institution, facility or particular person in a residential or blended residential space, the alleged noise maker is not going to be allowed to make use of sound amplification tools till they will show to the satisfaction of the satisfaction of a Court that using stated tools is not inflicting a nuisance.
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