The menace of galamsey activities in the country which has over the years posed a huge threat to the livelihood of Ghanaians, upon imperiling various water bodies in the nation, have maneuvered its way to affect a greater portion of the country's ocean, particularly that of Adwoakrom, a suburb of Shama in the Western Region where the Pra River meets the sea.

The Pra River, which for months back emerged the direct alternative to residents of Shama-Adwoakrom should they encounter any water crisis, has now been left to its fate, since illicit galamsey activities ongoing in the Central Region and other parts of the country have destroyed the purity of the area's river and sea to turn muddy instead.

This has resulted in destroying the only source of livelihood to fishermen in the area, over pollution of the sea with poisonous chemical substances from the galamsey activities, which in effect turns to kill fishes and other living organisms in the sea.

Senior fisherman and opinion leader to fishery activities in the country, John Quayson, popularly in the fishing industry as 'Manoma', following the damning situation at Shama, has accused four personalities to be the architects behind Ghana's unending galamsey activities.

According to Manoma, the first  person Ghanaians ought to blame over the country's galamsey woes is President Nana Akufo-Addo, followed by his Veep Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the Inspector General of Police George Akuffo Dampare, and Major General Bismarck Kwasi Onwona, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS).

He implored that the aforementioned personalities he accuses of being masterminders behind the country's galamsey activities, should prove their innocence of his claim by fighting to the brim to eradicate galamsey from the country in other to preserve Ghana's impairing water bodies.

Nana Ennu Bassaw, Chief Fisherman of Shama in an engagement with *Sompa News*, made a clarion call to leadership of the country to see to the stoppage of galamsey which now appears the fishermen's prime enemy over the pains causing them.

He asserted that fishermen in the area often set to land virtually no or low catch in every fishing trip they embark over the untimely killing of fishes by chemicals from galamsey activities amid their challenges on premix fuel.

Other fisherfolks and residents of Shama and Adwoakrom also eulogized how bad the state of the sea and Pra River have recently been reduced due to the galamsey activity frowned upon and beseeched government to intervene in the best way it can.

The call of Adwoakrom residents, follows that of Prof. Samuel Adei's call on President Nana Akufo-Addo to declare a national emergency on galamsey, considering the porous nature of Ghana's water bodies now. A statement which has attracted the support of various labour unions like UTAG.

Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan