Sentences with phrase «illegal miners on»

What we do is that when we arrest illegal miners on the site, we hand them over to the Police and the Police takes over from there.»

The government's anti-illegal mining task - force, Operation Vanguard has been defending the reason why it set the equipment belonging to some illegal miners on fire.

Not exact matches

The challenge has been that alternatives have generally have been as bad or worse, relying on high - temperature acids or in the case of illegal gold miners, using mercury.

Ahead of the announcement of how to deal with the situation, a government delegation will on Monday visit some illegal mining sites in the Eastern Region as the deadline for illegal miners to evacuate nears.

Government has come under attack by thousands of Ghanaians engaging in illegal mining threatening to vote against the ruling party in the next elections despite their (illegal miners) hazardous activities on the environment.

«We know that [the illegal miners] will kill so what is wrong if [the soldiers] kill,» he wondered on Saturday's edition of TV3's New Day hosted by Abena Tabi.

Meanwhile, Citi FM's #StopGalamseyNow campaign team in the Eastern Region toured some mining sites at Bunso, Osino, Kwabeng, Anyinam and Kyebi last week and shared fliers and t - shirts to residents while engaging some illegal miners as well duty bearers on how to curb the menace in the region.

Since shooting to kill is equally seen as illegal, Mr. Kumah is calling on parliament to empower the military personnel leading the galamsey fight with a law that would enable them to kill illegal miners.

The operations of illegal miners have had a dire consequence on the environment.

The Chinese illegal miners and their Ghanaian accomplices who were arrested on River Ankobra in the Western Region last Friday, appeared at the Sekondi High Court on Monday [March 27th 2017], where they were remanded into police custody to reappear on April 10, 2017.

On the 4th of May 2017, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources John Peter Amewu suspended the operations of Shaanxi Mining company to allow for investigations into the death of some illegal miners alleged to have been...

He assured the President that the coalition would continue to wage war on the illegal miners until the last drop of water from the country's major rivers were wholesome and the farmlands restored.

The task force since its composition last year has arrested some 983 illegal miners, violating the government's ban on small - scale mining.

But the group has since the government's renewed fight against illegal mining in the country, expressed its dissatisfaction, particularly on the basis that even those operating with requisite licence have been boxed together with the illegal ones It has been demanding that government draws the line between illegal small scale miners and legitimate small scale miners with licence.

A police source told DAILY GUIDE that when the security agents got to the site, the illegal miners took to their heels, but the law enforcers managed to grab 26 of them on the spot, while the other 11 were arrested at Akyem Osenase in a different operation on the same day.

DAILY GUIDE learnt that the illegal miners, numbering over 78, on Tuesday clashed with military and police officers when they stormed the Akyem Dompeh mining site to cause their arrest.

This comes on the back of the expiration of a three weeks directive to small scale illegal miners to halt their operations.

He revealed that the former Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, tried different methods to get him to ease up on the fight against illegal miners within the small - scale mining sector.

The illegal miners were mining opposite the Tarkwa Senior High School very close to an area where the Lands Ministry was holding a National Stakeholders» workshop on the Multilateral...

The illegal miners were mining opposite the Tarkwa Senior High School very close to an area where the Lands Ministry was holding a National Stakeholders» workshop on the Multilateral Mining Integrated Project (MMIP).

Speaking to Citi News» Kojo Agyeman, the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu said this is part of a grand strategy to effectively clamp down on illegal miners.

A Federal High Court sitting in Jos on Wednesday granted bail to a miner, Alh Abdullahi Adamu alias Dan - China, 16 Chinese nationals and 9 other Nigerians, who are being tried by the federal government over alleged illegal mining.

The government through the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources as part of activities to stop the menace, has temporarily placed a ban on the issuance of licenses for small - scale mining, and directed all illegal miners to cease the practice and evacuate from the various sites.

Speaking at this year's Ohum Festival in Kyebi on Saturday, the President stated that he will not allow illegal miners to destroy the environment with impunity.

According to him, Capt. Mahama and his colleagues from the 5th Infantry Battalion who were deployed to wage war on illegal mining, were instead protecting illegal miners.

There is currently a ban on small - scale mining in the country following the widespread devastation of the water resources and forest reserves due to the activities of illegal miners.

Fourteen illegal miners operating on the Offin River at Manso Keniago in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region have been arrested.

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Osun Command, on Tuesday arrested seven illegal gold miners in Itagunmodi community, Atakumosa West local Government area of the State.

«We think it is very important that any operation against illegal mining should be carried out in line with Ghanaian laws and international recognized norms, the mass arrest and media hype should be minimized, the cases should be dealt with on individual base and the legitimate rights of the miners should be respected,» it said.

While parading the suspects, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Mineral and Natural Resources, Hon. Tunde Ajilore, said the state government's effort to curb the activities of illegal miners underscored the importance of a structured biometric database of miners in the state.

The arrest followed the launch of «Operation Final War» by the Amansie West District of Ashanti region, meant to launch a final onslaught on recalcitrant illegal miners and bring them to face the law.

The Mission said government must minimize the mass arrest of illegal miners and deal with culprits on individual basis.

Speaking on the arrests, Major Pabi, said, «as at yesterday morning, we had made 328 arrests of illegal miners who are flouting the President's directive against illegal mining.

Residents of Tindonmolgo, a suburb of Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region, are appealing to the Regional Minister, Rockson Bukari and the Regional Police Command, to clamp down on illegal miners in the region.

«In the areas where the illegal miners operate, they have bought phones for other people who serve as lookouts so when our vehicles are passing, they will inform the people on the field that we are coming so they run.

Fred Oware, the Chief Executive Officer of the BPA, expressed discomfort at the activities of the illegal miners and assured that the Authority would collaborate with relevant institutions to clamp down on them.

Her stellar track record of tackling headline cases has also included her representation of the families of Jean Charles de Menezes and of the Marchioness disaster victims, and recent years have led her to act on numerous illegal detention cases, from striking miners to accused terrorists held in Guantanamo Bay.

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