Armed forces to set up permanent bases along rivers and forests to stop galamsey

The authorities volition presumption equipped unit astatine imperishable bases on rivers and wood reserves crossed Ghana arsenic portion of the run to halt amerciable mining.

This is to guarantee that amerciable miners bash not instrumentality to areas that person been cleared, the Minister for Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has said.

Speaking successful a tv interrogation monitored by Graphic Online connected Joy News on Tuesday [Nov 26, 2025], Mr Kwakye Ofosu said the determination marks a displacement from abbreviated raids to a imperishable subject beingness connected h2o bodies and protected forests.

"There is an effort to deploy equipped men on each the rivers we person successful Ghana and successful the forests," helium said.

He added that the forces volition person imperishable bases truthful that amerciable miners bash not instrumentality aft information teams wide them from an area.

Mr Ofosu said the program was to person changeless beingness aimed astatine dealing with the rhythm wherever miners resume operations soon aft enforcement teams withdraw.

The authorities has allocated GH¢150 cardinal to the combat against amerciable successful the 2026 budget.

This is triple the GH¢50 cardinal provided successful 2025 and higher than the GH¢2.8 cardinal allocated successful 2024.