Sentences with phrase «with illegal miners»

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 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.

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

Not exact matches

As the president and CEO of Inmet — a Canadian copper miner with global operations — Jochen Tilk dealt with everything from illegal strikes in Papua New Guinea to runaway costs in Panama and environmental protestors in Spain.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Pressure group, OccupyGhana is raising concerns with the laxity of the immigration charges brought against some suspected Chinese illegal miners, thus prompting a petition to the Attorney General's office.

Until recently, many of Ghana's fresh water bodies had become poisonous with thousands of acres of fertile farmlands destroyed as a result of the actions of illegal miners.

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.

He also expressed his dissatisfaction with the sentences handed to the illegal miners who have been convicted.

«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.

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

The National Commander of the government's anti-galamsey taskforce, Operation Vanguard, has expressed frustration with what he says is the slow pace of prosecution of illegal miners arrested by the task - force.

In an interview with Citi News» Kojo Agyeman, the Public Relations Officer for Operation Vanguard, Major Gariba Pabi, said «so far we've arrested 294 illegal miners as of this morning [Tuesday].»

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.

The hiss of oxygen cuts through the diesel rumble, the walls of the office vibrate with explosions two levels below; war - torn and half - forgotten, these miners» physical struggle finds its mirror a continent away — in the tropical heat of an illegal Surinamese gold mine.