Sentences with phrase «killing illegal miners»

The Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu has asked the public to disregard what he describes as propaganda by some persons to derail the work of the anti-galamsey taskforce Operation Vanguard, by falsely accusing them of killing illegal miners.

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.

Not exact matches

To make matters worse, we can state authoritatively that Chinese illegal miners have found their way back into the forests in parts of the Ashanti Region to engage in the same mining activity for which the «Operation Vanguard» force of the President have killed and maimed many innocent Ghanaians.

«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.

Guards at an abandoned mine shaft in South Africa have shot and killed at least four illegal miners, according to reports.

Meanwhile, New Patriotic Party [NPP] MP for Manso Adubia in the Ashanti Region, Yaw Frimpong, has said the suggestion for a shoot - to - kill approach in dealing with illegal miners in the country is inappropriate.

The emotive argument that we need to eradicate all cats and make owning one illegal because they kill native birds like sulphur crested cockatoos, rainbow lorikeets, galahs, eastern rosellas and noisy miner birds falls to the ground when you know the conservation status of all these birds is least concern.