Sekoti (UE) Jan. 19, GNA - Naba Sigri Bewong, Paramount chief of Sekoti Traditional Area in the Upper East Region, said on Wednesday that mining is a national canker that requires coordinated efforts by traditional rulers and people in authority to curb the menace. Naba Bewong who spoke in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, expressed worry over the increase in 'galamsey' activities involving children of school going age in the Talensi-Nabdam District of the Upper East Region.

He observed that the phenomenon was becoming a social canker and said it did not only endanger the lives of the children but also degraded the environment, adding that his traditional council had put up a number of educational programmes to sensitize the people on the dangers surface mining posed to their health as well as the social mishaps associated with it.