Sentences with phrase «shooting illegal miners»
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.
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The operation recorded a near setback about two weeks ago after the military personnel shot an illegal miner at Obuasi Anyimadukrom in the Ashanti Region.
The operation recorded a near setback a few weeks after the military personnel shot an illegal miner at Obuasi Anyimadukrom in the Ashanti Region.
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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».
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.
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.
Even without the palm oil, it faces a myriad of other threats, from raids by bush meat hunters trapping and shooting primates, antelopes and elephants, to incursions from illegal loggers and miners prospecting for iron ore.