Graphic’s fight against galamsey receives thumbs up

The Publisher of The Washington Informer in the United States of America (USA), Ms Denise Rolark Barnes, has commended the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) for its commitment to fight the ‘galamsey’ menace.

She said the fight against illegal mining being spearheaded by the GCGL was in the right direction since it would help save the environment from further degradation and also save lives.

Ms Barnes commended the company when she led a group called Roots to Glory Tours Royal Ancestry DNA Project, based in the USA, to the Cape Coast office of the GCGL last Thursday.

The group was on a week-long visit to the country to carry out DNA tests to help determine the lineage of most Africans in the diaspora.

The team took DNA samples of some chiefs of Ga-Adangme, Krobo Odumasi and other parts of the country.

There is a groundswell of public revulsion and media and civil society advocacy against the menace of illegal mining, popularly called 'galamsey'.

A media coalition was launched a fortnight ago with the aim of collecting one million signatures from Ghanaians and individuals interested in fighting illegal mining and forwarding them to the President,  Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for immediate remedial action.

Ms Barnes said she had been following the efforts by the GCGL to stop the menace, describing the commitment as a “phenomenal” one which must be supported by all Ghanaians.

Ancestry DNA Project

The Coordinator of the Roots to Glory Tours Project, Ada Anagho Brown, said the project helped thousands of Africans in the diaspora from the Americas to Europe to make the decision to trace their ancestral roots by DNA. 

“Our plea to all is to allow DNA testing to occur so we can bring our people back to Africa.