At a time of global climate change, no sane green investor will invest money in any nation in which ruthless and murderous criminal gangs can invade privately-owned property with impunity - and get away with it.
That is why the existence of the rule of law is a key prerequisite for investors - across all the jurisdictions they choose to invest in, worldwide.
If we are to maintain law and order in our homeland Ghana, it is vital that the criminal syndicates behind illegal sand-winning, illegal logging and illegal gold mining across the country, are broken up quickly by the security agencies.
All their leading members must be arrested, prosecuted and jailed, before they finally succeed in turning Ghana into a lawless state - in which the law-abiding are either murdered or brutalised with impunity on a regular basis.
It is such a pity that there is such enforced apathy in officialdom, about all matters to do with dealing effectively with the egregious harm being caused to the natural environment, by the activities of illegal sand-winners, illegal loggers and illegal gold miners, across Ghana.
Unfortunately, that apathy essentially results from a lack of the required resources, needed to enable the security agencies deal effectively with the problem, head on, once and for all.
Yet, the activities of those criminal syndicates affect the quality of life of millions in Ghana.
An example, is the acute water shortage that occurred at Nsawam and its environs before the recent rains set in.
If news reports in sections of the Ghanian media are to be believed, apparently, the drying up of the reservoir for the Nsawam treatment plant, of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), resulted partly from the blocking of a tributary of the Densu River, by illegal sand-winners at Mensahkrom, which is the next village after Thompsonakura - about five minutes as the crow flies, from Kyekyewre, off the Accra-Kumasi highway, just before Asuboi and immediately after Teacher Mante.
The question is: Do those who now govern our country not realise that there is synergy between the activities of international drug cartels and international terrorist groups, and that of the criminal syndicates behind most of the illegal sand-winning, illegal logging and illegal gold mining in Ghana, today?
And do the security agencies that daily brief those who now govern our country also not realise that that synergy will eventually lead to an alliance between the West African affiliates of international terrorist groups, and the criminal syndicates behind most of the illegal sand-winning, illegal logging and illegal gold mining now going on in Ghana, someday, soon: as sure as day follows night?
Those of us who are currently at the receiving end of the activities of the criminal syndicates involved in illegal sand-winning at Thompsonakura and Mensahkrom, near Kyekyewre; and the illegal activities of the criminal syndicates behind the illegal logging and illegal gold mining now being carried out in the 14-square mile freehold upland evergreen rainforest property of the P. E. Thompson Estate at Akyem Juaso (around Forest Reserve pillars 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 and 98), with such impunity, can see that clear and present danger to our homeland Ghana, looming over the horizon, very clearly.
And it is a state of lawlessness and impunity that is most frightening.
Why does it never strike our leaders that no green economy investors will come to Ghana, ever, if some of us sought the help of global protests groups, such as Greenpeace and Avaaz.org, to inform the world of the abominations being carried out by criminals in our freehold upland evergreen rainforest property - that is part of a designated Globally Significant Biodiversity Area (GSBA)?
How can those who have now unlawfully taken over part of our freehold forestland - acquired in 1921 and 1926 - with the collusion of the Odikro of Akyem Juaso, Barima Kofi Osei, and his council of elders, using fake documents as 'legal' cover, get away with their heinous crimes against humanity - even though the matter has been reported to Anyinam District Police Command by the Hon. Gyeatuo, the Assemblyman for Akyem Saamang?
Why is the Anyinam District Police Command not following up on the complaint lodged by me personally, recently, against those trespassing and destroying our forestland unlawfully - the selfsame criminals arrested by the Hon. Gyeatuo - I ask?
With respect, for the information of the Anyinam District Police Command, the P. E. Thompson Estate, the legitimate owners of the said freehold rainforest property, are no pushovers. We intend to sue those despicable criminals for GHc10 million - as compensation for damaging part of an upland evergreen rainforest that evolved over millennia, just to steal timber and gold with impunity. They have finally met their match.
On what is World Water Day, the question all patriotic Ghanaians, who care about the natural environment, and are concerned about the seeming breakdown in law and order in our homeland Ghana - as regards illegal gold mining, illegal logging and illegal sand-winning - must ponder over is: When will those who now govern our country wake up to what is a clear and present danger to the safety of the Republic of Ghana, and its citizens, and halt the ongoing brutal gang-rape of Mother Nature, in Ghana?
Since President Mahama is committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, why does he not act to stop these monstrosities across Ghana, I ask?
Will the authorities in Ghana continue sleeping, till international drug cartels and international terrorist groups become aware of the vast profits made by those behind illegal gold mining and illegal logging in the aforementioned areas, and other parts of Ghana - and decide to use such criminal syndicates to generate funds to expand their drugs and terror networks across West Africa?
Hmm, Ghana - eyeasem o: asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa!
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