Fourteen
illegal miners operating on the Offin River at Manso Keniago in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region have been arrested.
«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.
Not exact matches
In his view, government must show more concern for local businesses and that should mean separating
illegal miners from legal
miners and allowing the latter to freely
operate because they have done nothing wrong.
Aside the wanton destruction of water bodies by
illegal miners, some communities, especially in Accra, have complained about the health hazards posed to them by factories
operating within residential areas.
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.
According to the Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, who made the revelation in an exclusive interview with Host of the Citi Breakfast Show, Bernard Avle, when the
illegal miners are prevented from
operating during...
Some
illegal miners also
operate under cover of areas where one will not even think mining operations can take place.
The move will now allow the task - force to effectively fight
illegal miners who have been
operating in the Ankobora, Pra and Brim Rivers.
My own investigations show that, some of these
illegal miners pay bribes to some Ghanaian citizens and they allowed them to
operate under cover.