According to the President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), Angel Carbonu students in the mining communities do not frequent their respective schools due to galamsey.
Speaking in an interview with an Accra-based radio station, he opined that the students, attracted by the thought of a luxurious lifestyle, led to them abandoning the classrooms for the muddy pits in search for gold.
“Students are not even regular in schools in mining communities [these days] because they see that engaging in galamsey [illegal mining] brings them immediate money, far more than they could imagine as students, and this is affecting teaching and learning in the schools,” Angel Carbonu has said.
He therefore called on the government to put a stop to all forms of small-scale mining affecting the lives of Ghanaians.
