{"id":13308,"date":"2025-09-25T08:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13308"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:29:14","slug":"sam-jonah-galamsey-fight-impossible-without-traditional-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13308","title":{"rendered":"Sam Jonah: Galamsey fight impossible without traditional leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"104\" data-end=\"323\">The Executive Chairman of Jonah Capital,\u00a0<strong data-start=\"145\" data-end=\"162\">Sir Sam Jonah<\/strong>, has stated that the fight against illegal gold mining, popularly known as\u00a0<em data-start=\"240\" data-end=\"250\">galamsey<\/em>, cannot succeed without the active involvement of traditional leaders.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"325\" data-end=\"509\">His comments come amid mounting pressure from civil society groups and other stakeholders urging the government to declare a state of emergency in mining hotspots to confront the menace.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"511\" data-end=\"774\">Speaking during a fireside chat organised by the School of Communications Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Accra, the renowned businessman noted that the problem is not the absence of legislation but the failure of authorities to enforce existing laws.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"473\" data-end=\"739\">\u201cThe laws are there; don\u2019t mine in forest reserves, and when you do, you have to clean it up. So, it is not that we need more laws; it is the case that we need more enforcement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_2_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">\n<div class=\"ads_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"a-single a-10\">\u201cYou can only enforce when there is an important element that is missing in all of it, which is the involvement of traditional leaders and the community,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Chairman of Jonah Capital,\u00a0Sir Sam Jonah, has stated that the fight against illegal gold mining, popularly known as\u00a0galamsey, cannot succeed without the active involvement of traditional leaders. His comments come amid mounting pressure from civil society groups and other stakeholders urging the government to declare a state of emergency in mining hotspots to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3922,41,3507],"tags":[2658,4101,4102],"class_list":["post-13308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galamsey","category-general-news","category-national","tag-galamsey","tag-sam-jonas","tag-traditional-leaders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308","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=13308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13310,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308\/revisions\/13310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}