Tag Archives: EXCAVATORS

One of the famous and vociferous youth activists and General Secretary for Kumasi Youth Association (KuYA) in the Ashanti region, Mr Kwabena Frimpong says the burning of seized excavators by the military team in the Ghana Armed Forces is not the best of ideas to combating illegal mining. Speaking to …

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said some 900 excavators seized by the anti galamsey taskforce under the present New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration will be returned to their owners should the party win the elections this year to form the next government. Addressing a town hall meeting in …

The Association of Small Scale Miners at Obuasi in the Ashanti region say they do not trust the NDC will deliver on their promise to return their seized excavators if they win the December polls. Former President John Mahama while unveiling the NDC’s manifesto for the 2020 elections, among other …

Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong has accused the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng together with the suspended Central Regional Vice-Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Ekow Ewusi, of charging GHS25,000 for each of the seized excavators to anyone who needed them. “I …

The embattled Minister for Environment, Science and Technology Prof Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng has appealed to the Police to probe a journalist working with Accra-based Peace FM and a national security officer in the ongoing missing excavators saga. In a letter to the Police, the minister claimed the reporter used his NIB …