Video: How Anti-Galamsey Crusader and MP turns His Community to a Galamsey Site

Manso Nkwanta MP

Ghana is an agricultural nation with most of its population engaged in Cocoa production. The country is blessed with several natural resources, including Cocoa.

But interestingly, cocoa is not very much of a celebrated crop, compared to other commodities in the country.

Can you imagine what Ghana could have possibly been if there was no cocoa industry?

One of the biggest producers of cocoa beans in the Cocoa farming communities in Amansie West of the Ashanti Region, Manso Nsiana is facing crisis as anti-Galamsey crusader and Member of Parliament(MP) for Manso Nkwanta Constituency, Hon Joseph Albert Quarm have turned their farmlands to galamsey sites.

The Environmental Miner and land reclamation expert have given Cocoa farms belonging to the individual farmers as consession for mining and about fifty(50) acres of Cocoa farms have been destroyed already and still counting.

Hon Quarm claims to have personally funded the fight against illegal mining activities in this community from his own resources.

According to him, nobody has been able to mine illegally there because he spent a lot of money to prevent the locals and Chinese nationals from doing it in Manso Nsiana community where he hail from in his constituency.

The MP who is also the Chief Executive Officer of Prof. Qualm Publication once reiterated that as a mining expert, he is not against mining rather will not support the illegal ones but the situation was different when this Network vistied the community.

The farmers allegedly accused the MP of collecting Gh¢200,000 plus a 25% commission on every production per an acre from the buyers but the farmer who has spent several on his/her Cocoa farm is paid the maximum of Gh¢20,000 and called for immediate intervention by the government to save the Cocoa industry.

The NPP government is committed to “reverse the dwindling fortunes of cocoa farming and return to economic levels of productivity for inputs delivery and effective organisation of cocoa farmers.

Despite government's measures to revamp the cocoa sector, the farmers stated that government’s promise to boost cocoa production in the country would be in vain if immediate action is not taken against the anti-Galamsey crusader.

The farmers are currently working on staging a massive demonstration the anti-Galamsey crusader and Member of Parliament for Manso Nkwanta, Hon Joseph Albert Quarm for failing them and fighting galamsey in disguise.

Watch the Video below:

Source:Ghana/Odiasempa/Odi News Network

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