Minority Caucus Demands Repeal of L.I. 2462 as Galamsey Threat Deepens
The Minority Caucus has issued a bold and urgent call on the President to immediately repeal Legislative Instrument 2462, describing it as a regulation that has “inadvertently enabled illegal operations.”
The Caucus says the L.I. has become a backdoor legalisation of galamsey and is now a symbol of executive failure in the fight against environmental destruction.
In a strongly worded petition, the Minority warned that illegal mining has evolved into “a full-blown ecological emergency, a moral crisis, and an indictment on our collective conscience.”
They accused the government of betraying campaign promises and overseeing a system where “those entrusted with power have either remained passive or, worse, become complicit.”
The petition pointed to verifiable data from A Rocha Ghana and Global Forest Watch indicating a 17% increase in river turbidity and a 9% forest cover loss in the first six months of 2025 alone.
The Caucus warned, “The blood of our rivers is the blood of our people. Our forests are falling, our water is poisoned, and our integrity as a nation is on trial.”
The call for repeal is among a series of demands, including a declaration of a national emergency in illegal mining zones, an independent oversight commission, and the prosecution of all complicit government and party officials.
The Caucus stated, “Our silence and state inaction constitute a betrayal of those commitments,” citing international treaties Ghana has ratified, including the Paris Agreement and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
Beyond galamsey, the Minority Caucus also addressed what it calls a coordinated campaign of electoral violence during the Ablekuma North parliamentary rerun on July 11, 2025.
The petition described the incident as a deliberate and premeditated effort to subvert the electoral process, alleging impersonation of security forces, brutal attacks on journalists, and physical assaults on political leaders.
The document detailed multiple violent incidents at polling stations, naming St. Peter’s Society Methodist Church, Awoshie DVLA, and Asiedu Gyedu Memorial School as key flashpoints.
The attacks, it said, were not isolated but “point to a deliberate, premeditated campaign aimed at subverting the electoral process.”
Credit: Abubakar Ibrahim
