Galamsey Has Contributed To A 400% Increase In Kidney Diseases

Kofi Asare, the Executive Director of Africa Educational Watch has revealed that, over the past ten years, galamsey has contributed to about 400% increases in Kidney diseases.

In a post shared on his official Facebook page on Saturday, 17th September 2022, he wrote;

“Galamsey is destroying the water used to cultivate vegetables, contributing to a 400% increase in kidney diseases in the past 10 years.”

Kofi Asare lamented that, most vegetables can’t last 4 days even in a fridge. Whether you live in Elubo or Accra, rich or poor, once you eat vegetables, your kidneys are at risk. 

He added that whosoever do Politics with Galamsey do it at his or her own risk because the destruction of rivers and land goes on a long way to affect us all.

Kofi Asare asked all Ghanaians to speak against Galamsey. He ended by urging all citizens to demand action from law enforcement and political authority.

Most farmers farm along these mercury and cynide polluted water bodies. They farm rice, garden eggs, cabbage, green pepper, okro, carrot, green beans etc.

Most cargo cars from Accra goes to these rural arrears to buy vegetables. You may live in a city, buy mineral water to drink and cook but these vegetables will find its way on your dinner table. This is the sad reality.

Many fishes are dead, due to the pollution. If Ghanaian citizens fail to help the fight against galamsey, we all will experience the consequences like the creeping plant story.

In the story, a tortoise told creeping plant to tell a singing bird to stop singing. He said that a hunter may spot the bird and kill it. The creeping plant laughed and said if the hunter kill the bird, it doesn’t concern it.

Few minutes later, a hunter approached and shot the bird dead. It feel exactly at where the tortoise was lying. The hunter cut the creeping plant and tied both bird and tortoise together.

Indeed we all have a role to play in the fight against galamsey as kidney disease can grip anyone. Don’t say it doesn’t concern you.

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