Human cost of galamsey now counted in bodies as lives are lost, more at risk – Woanyah

He urged the government to take urgent steps to prevent illegal mining activities from spreading into the tributaries and water bodies that sustained communities in the Volta Region.

Mr Woanyah said the Volta Region could not afford to regard the illegal mining crisis as a problem affecting only other parts of the country, warning that tributaries feeding the Volta Lake were increasingly vulnerable to pollution.1, GNA – Mr Makafui Kofi Woanyah, Volta Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has raised alarm over the escalating human, environmental and economic consequences of illegal mining, saying “the human cost is now counted in bodies” as more lives are lost and many others remain at risk.