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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 88272, member: 27"]
Ghana's illegal mining mess runs so deep that even a government shakeup just shuffles the same operators to new political patrons.

Mahama on galamsey's deep roots
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[*]President John Dramani Mahama called galamsey deeply entrenched in society.
[*]Traditional rulers and political appointees are all tangled up.
[*]Operators just switch loyalty when governments change over.
[*]Mahama admitted his party has its people involved.
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Enforcement struggles on the ground
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[*]NAIMOS faces community-level pushback during crackdowns regularly.
[*]Chiefs and youth physically resist enforcement teams showing up.
[*]Mahama conceded that winning this fight overnight is impossible.
[*]Patrol boats for waterways are missing for nine-month stretches.
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The cocoa sector is fueling the problem
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[*]Rock-bottom cocoa prices drove farmers toward gold mining instead.
[*]Struggling producers simply handed over farmland for galamsey operations.
[*]Cocoa industry instability keeps feeding the mining pipeline directly.
[*]The government wants farmers getting 70% of global cocoa prices.
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Resource and policy fixes in progress
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[*]An automatic pricing mechanism for cocoa is being developed.
[*]Stabilized prices could theoretically pull farmers back to agriculture.
[*]Finance ministry collaboration aims to fund enforcement logistics properly.
[*]Mahama framed the campaign as difficult but absolutely non-negotiable.
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