Chief of Adausena, Nana Dr Boni Abankro V has bemoaned the illegal mining widely known as galamsey in his community.

According to him, all the river bodies in the Adausena in the Eastern region have been polluted as a result of such mining activities.

In an interview on JoyNews' The Pulse, he stated that certain mining sites are located near residential communities where people live.

He noted that the situation is dire that “from your house even if you through water, it goes straight into the mining pit.”

“All the river bodies now are destroyed ... the resettlement of people affected by the mining activities of Newmont where they built roads and all – all those areas have been destroyed by illegal miners because the gold is everywhere,” he lamented on Wednesday, September 18.

According to him, they are helpless in the situation and called on the government to act to end the menace.

He noted that if the government delays heeding their call, “from the tiniest toddler to the oldest granny would go on the field to get them [all miners] out.

“If the same government who sat down for these things to be destroyed is telling us today after eight years to come back again, I will not sit down to wait.

“I am not going to sit down for them to destroy it. It would go against me that during my reign, I sat down supinely for my environment to be destroyed.”

Commenting on the deployment of security to curb the situation, he cast doubt whether it would produce a good outcome.