Japekrom Omanhene Calls on Ghanaians to Demonstrate Against Galamsey Than Economic Hardship.

The chiefs and people of the Mpuasu- Japekrom Traditional area in the Jaman South Municipal in the Bono Region over the past weeks have been engaged in various activities to mark the celebration of this year’s annual Munufie Yam festival.

The Munufie Yam festival is a festival that the people of Jaman South use to mark the end of the farming season to begin the harvest of the yams and to also seek plans for the year ahead.

Speaking under the theme for this year's yam festival which was "Adapting Culture Towards Sustainable Environmental Practice" the Omanhene of Mpuasu–Japekrom Traditional area, Okatakyie Amoa Aturu  Nkonkonkyia ll in his speech said that, let us all stand up and demonstrate against galamsey activities rather than economic hardship because people of today have thrown out the sustainable way of life we inherited from our ancestors and have adopted get rich quick attitude.

Okatakyie Amoa Aturu Nkonkonkyia ll further added that, what our fathers and mothers toiled for several years to earn, the people of today want to get in a very short time and as a result, we are quickly destroying the very land on which our lives depends.

Adding that, most of the sicknesses and ills most people are suffering from are a result of the effects of galamsey activities, and is very sad that our future generation will be horrified.

Okatakyie Amoa Nkonkonkyia ll lastly explained that, if this had happened during the colonial days we and the whole world would be talking about how the white man was attempting to wipe us out as a people but we the custodian of our lands are destroying it.

He, therefore, urged the people in the country to rather demonstrate against the galamsey menace facing us with the true willingness to stop this menace from impacting negatively on our society.

Story by Opamago Paparichy