President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has disclosed that the ban on illegal mining in Ghana has been successful.

 Talking at the 2023 Africa Environment Highest point in Nairobi, Kenya, the President noticed that the restriction on galamsey, which has been obliterating water bodies and backwoods saves, has assisted with decreasing the country's fossil fuel byproducts.

President Akufo-Addo added that few lead strategy drives, for example, planting for food and occupations, one town, one dam and the restriction on unlawful mining have all added to decreasing fossil fuel byproducts and building the country's flexibility to the effect of environmental change.

"We put a prohibition on unlawful mining the peculiarity we call galamsey which was obliterating our water bodies, vegetation and our woods. Exactly 20, 000 youngsters have been locked in to establish in excess of 30 million trees in two years to make occupations and reestablish debased lands.

"These strategy drives are as of now yielding positive outcomes in the achievement of SDG Objectives, especially the objective of decreasing our fossil fuel byproducts," President Akufo-Addo said.

He approached other African nations to find comparable ways to decrease their fossil fuel byproducts and fabricate

versatility to the effects of environmental change.

Relatedly, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, a guide to the President has put galamsey exercises on customary rulers.

He scrutinized the disappointment of the security organizations to battle unlawful mining in the nation effectively.

He censured the conventional pioneers for permitting unlawful diggers to obliterate terrains and water bodies through their exercises.

He demanded that bosses can't exclude themselves from fault since they benefit from the exercises of galamsey.