School Children in Gbane and Environment Sacrificed in the name of Gold!
By Samuel Adadi Akapule Sacrificing school children to foreigners in the name of gold; sacrificing the environment to foreigners in name of gold? What an absurdity! Posterity and nature would not spare political leaders if they do not rise up and stop these negative and bizarre practices. Presently there are two basic schools at Gbane in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region that are incompletely separated just by a web from the highly industrialised and vast stretch of land where a Chinese mining company with the name Shaanxi Mining Ghana Ltd, has perched with heavy equipment. The Schools are the Bonsa International School which has only a 3-unit mud classroom structure and another open-air classroom for toddlers. The other School is St. Anthony Primary School , a public school with a 3-unit block-structure. The innocent school children numbering over 200 learn and play in the midst of flying rocks blasted by mining explosives at a spitting distance. As I spoke to th...