Ghanaian Music genius, Livingstone Etsey Satekla, known in showbiz circles as Stonebwoy has tackled the galamsey menace bedevilling Ghana in a song dubbed “Greedy Men”.

The project highlights the detrimental effects of illegal small-scale gold mining in Ghana mostly referred to as galamsey. 

‘Greedy Men’speaks of the economic loss, greater loss of life and property, pollution of soil and groundwater, biodiversity loss, chemical leakages, and other long-term repercussions the activity has on the country.

In the video of the song, he highlights how foreign companies engage in illegal gold mining in Ghana in their quest for riches to the detriment of the local people, and further throws spotlight on how these foreigners use the underprivileged as cheap labour in the mining areas.

These individuals enjoy the booty while the nation does not even benefit in the process, and as influential figure, Stonebwoy uses his position to bring to light the long-term effects of illegal small-scale mining on persons living in the community as well as the environment.

The video shows emotional scenes of the effects of illegal mining on the lives of people living in the communities where this illegality happens.  

The introduction of the song urges those engaged in the illegal activities to think about the future children , “Mankind is wicked and wild Destroying Generational at wealth.”

In the verse one, Stonebwoy describes the menace saying “Cyanide and Mercury inna Di Water 

The Led is poisoning the water, the farm lands are chemicalised and I don’t know what to do and this is because of illegal mining and cocoa production declining deforestation and rise inna violent crime everyday.”   

The hook of the song reminds the perpetrators to “ think about the future children, what kind of legacy you leaving for them, selling and destroying  generational wealth and the people are suffering.”

The chorus says, “many men shall die  because of the ‘greedy’ of another yeah, Worldwide  many men shall die because of the ‘greedy’ of another man yeah, Nations, Many men shall die because of the ‘greedy’ of another man yeah Bhimnation .”

By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme