{"id":13256,"date":"2025-09-22T06:55:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13256"},"modified":"2025-09-22T06:55:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:55:40","slug":"fix-the-country-defies-govt-appeal-continues-anti-galamsey-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13256","title":{"rendered":"Fix the Country defies gov\u2019t appeal, continues anti-galamsey vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some members of the\u00a0Fix the Country movement<\/strong>\u00a0converged on\u00a0Revolution Square in Accra on Sunday, September 21, 2025<\/strong>, to begin a vigil aimed at pressuring the government to step up its fight against illegal mining, widely known as\u00a0galamsey<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The vigil, part of the group\u2019s sustained campaign against environmental destruction caused by illegal mining, drew scores of activists who vowed to continue their action until concrete measures are taken by the authorities.<\/p>\n

Deputy Director of Operations at the Presidency,\u00a0Mustapha Gbande<\/strong>, appeared at the grounds to appeal to the organisers to call off the event. He explained that President\u00a0John Dramani Mahama<\/strong>\u00a0had travelled outside the country for the United Nations General Assembly and suggested that the vigil be suspended to allow room for further engagements.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am here to plead with you that, at least if the purpose is served, can we call it off and allow ourselves to go and rest? The President has left for the UN General Assembly,\u201d Mr Gbande told the gathering..<\/p>\n

He added that government would arrange for the leadership of the movement to meet with the\u00a0Minister of Lands and Natural Resources<\/strong>\u00a0to be briefed on ongoing interventions against galamsey, stressing that the fight required collaboration between citizens and state institutions.<\/p>\n

But the group rejected the appeal outright, hooting at Mr Gbande and insisting on continuing their vigil. They argued that government had demonstrated little political will in addressing the menace and that civil action was necessary to protect Ghana\u2019s water bodies, forests, and farmlands from further destruction.<\/p>\n

The standoff highlights\u00a0growing public frustration<\/strong>\u00a0over illegal mining, which many view as an existential threat to the country\u2019s environment and long-term survival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some members of the\u00a0Fix the Country movement\u00a0converged on\u00a0Revolution Square in Accra on Sunday, September 21, 2025, to begin a vigil aimed at pressuring the government to step up its fight against illegal mining, widely known as\u00a0galamsey. The vigil, part of the group\u2019s sustained campaign against environmental destruction caused by illegal mining, drew scores of activists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3883,3922,41,3796,4060],"tags":[1972,4082],"class_list":["post-13256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-galamsey","category-general-news","category-land-degradation","category-sanitation","tag-oliver-vormawor","tag-fix-the-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13260,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13256\/revisions\/13260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}