Tag Archives: Chainsaw

A 28-year – old Chainsaw Operator has been crushed to death by a falling tree at Baniekrom in the Ahafo Ano South West District of the Ashanti Region. Body of the deceased identified as Foster Oseikrom has  been retrieved by Police and deposited at a morgue at Kunsu. The sad incident …

A Ghanaian police officer has been killed while on duty at Mpasaso No. 2 in the Ashanti region. On arrival at the Tepa Government Hospital, he was pronounced dead when a tree fell on him at the Mpasaso No. 2 forest reserve. Only identified as Officer Tony, and reported to …

Some eight people have been arrested for suspected illegal chainsaw operations in the Tano Offin Forest reserve in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the Ashanti region. The suspects arrested for their illegal entry into the restricted forest reserve are Attah Abeka 30, Prince Abeka 16, Shaibu Frank 17, Nkrumah …

Some eleven suspected chains saw operators who are illegally cutting down trees in the Akyem-Oda Forest in the Birim Central Municipality of the Eastern Region are currently in the grips of the Police. The suspects are; Yaw Toku, 60; Kwaku Fosu, 21; Kofi Yeboah, 36; Ibrahim Alex Adamu; Kofi Baffour, …

A 27-year-old chainsaw operator has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Court for unlawful entry and stealing at Kwadaso Estates in Kumasi. Salifu Mohammed is said to have forcefully entered the house of the complainants and made away with laptops, mobile phones, wristwatches and …