Sentences with phrase «many illegal miners»

At least 90 illegal miners have so far been arrested.

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.

Nobody has found anything against them; it is a blanket political ban which is destroying their business because of what illegal miners are doing,» Dr. Graham added.

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.

«We have arrested as many as 90 suspected illegal miners.

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.

[177][178] In 2013, there was a mass deportation of illegal miners, more than 4,000 of whom were Chinese nationals.

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.

About 15 illegal miners are reportedly trapped in a mining pit at Petriensa in the Asante Akyem Central Municipality in the Ashanti Region.

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.

Last week, Mr Mahama criticised the Akufo - Addo administration's approach to the fight against galamsey, saying the use of soldiers to flash out the illegal miners will not yield any fruitful result.

He recently became very popular when he led a media campaign against illegal mining in the country, forcing the NPP government's hand against galamsey, even though President Akufo - Addo had promised illegal miners, during the 2016 campaign, that galamsey would not be discouraged by an NPP government.

The minister, who doubles as the member of parliament for the Nkawkaw Constituency passionately condemned politicians and traditional leaders who sponsor the activities of illegal miners.

He therefore asked, «how else can [the military] react, when [the illegal miners] have come out with their guns to attack you?»

«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.

He entreated government to find new measures or road map to regulate the illegal miners instead of chasing and shooting them with the use of the joint military and police team «Operation Vanguard».

«The tactics of deploying military men to arrest illegal miners is not the way to go because my government has done it before but failed.

This is to help ensure auditing of the mining industry and flush out all illegal miners while introducing regulations to effectively control the sector.

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.

Their operations have resulted in the arrest of at least 600 illegal miners including foreign nationals, particularly Chinese.

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 said the activity was getting out of control in the district because the illegal miners are well armed, thereby making it difficult for the security forces in both the region and the district to flush them out.

Over the years, law enforcers have had a tortuous time dealing with illegal miners, who have armed themselves with sophisticated weapons.

Training and education is another way the ministry is hoping to get many illegal miners to legalize their activities and to observe better safety standards.

In my opinion, the president is effectively executing the part of article 257 (6) to the advantage of illegal miners throughout the country.

Aside the regular challenges the cocoa sector faces from pests and diseases, activities of small scale illegal miners popularly has emerged to be a major threat to the country's total cocoa...

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

Following the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources» declaration of a 21 - day ultimatum to all illegal miners to cease their operations and surrender their equipment, a number of significant actions took place, including arrests of some defiant illegal miners.

The anti-galamsey task force, Operation Vanguard, recently expressed unhappiness about what it said was the courts leniency in dealing with illegal miners brought before them.

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 first Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joe Osei Owusu, has said shooting illegal miners can be an effective way of dealing with the illegal mining menace.

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

According to the Commander of the task force, Colonel Michael Amoah Ayisi, if the situation lingers, illegal miners and their financiers will be motivated to act with impunity.

«We are not illegal miners.

After the dastardly act, Mr. Baah had initially spawned a cover story that the murdered soldier had been an armed robber, but as evidence added up, it emerged that the NPP man is an illegal miner and had enough motive to murder the soldier.

Consequent to that members of the group announced their intention to constitute a taskforce with the mandate to monitor and report activities of illegal miners to security personnel.

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.

The company explained that the illegal miners sometimes prospect for gold around both high voltage and low voltage poles rendering the poles vulnerable to collapse from the slightest rainstorm.

He observed the floods were caused by the obstruction of water by a man made dam constructed by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and not by the activities of illegal miners as earlier claimed.

Coincidentally, it was at a time when some Chinese illegal miners had been arrested in the Western Region for mining in the River Ankobrah.

The Deputy Minister was reacting to comments made by some illegal miners at the Akwatia Diamond Market in the Eastern Region who say getting them out...

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...

Mr John Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has urged illegal miners to take advantage of the numerous opportunities offered by the government under the Multilateral Mining Integrated Project (MMIP) to make a living.

Government has said it will put in place an alternative livelihood programme for illegal miners who are expected to be out of work soon, following moves to end their activities.

Teachers in the East Akyem Municipality in the Eastern Region, an area ravaged by the activities of illegal miners, have pledged to join Citi FM's efforts in ending illegal mining also known as galamsey.

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