Tag Archives: GALAMSEY

Six (6) suspected illegal miners including four (4) Chinese nationals have been arrested by the Ashanti regional Operation Vanguard taskforce. The Chinese nationals arrested are Li Xuh Jun, 51, Mo Chi Cai, 52, Wei Fun Ham, 45, and Wei Ziyun, 38. Yusif Fuseini – leader of the four suspects who …

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor has been tasked by Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, to take a relook at illegal mining known as Galamsey and deal with it. He made the appeal when the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, paid a …

The Operation Vanguard team of the Ghana Police Service has destroyed some 59 Changfang motors. The Western Region Force, commanded by Superintendent of Police William Kwofie Jabialu, destroyed the machines, as part of their mandate to curb illegal mining activities and water pollution in the region. According to the police, …

Two people who work at a Galamsey site at Sefwi Datano have been drown to death. This incident happened at Sefwi Datano in the Western Region of Ghana. Mustapha and Mumuni are the names of the deceased and they were very closed friends. It was reported that Mustapha went into …

A 41-year-old man, Emmanuel Okyere, popularly called Mensah has died inside a mining pit at Akyem Dokyi in the Kwabibirem Municipal District of the Eastern Region. He died on Thursday, 11 March 2021 when he fell into the mining pit, belonging to BSD Company. According to an eye witness who …

Two illegal miners have met their untimely death with one other person severely injured after a hill close to their mine site collapsed on them. The three were on their routine galamsey expedition on Tuesday afternoon when the hill, which had developed some cracks, accidentally slipped on Kofi China, 30, …

The Minister-designate for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation Dr Kwaku Afriyie, has suggested that Ghana must “severely” regulate excavators to address the problem of illegal mining in the country. According to him, excavators should be accounted for and banned as a measure to tackle illegal mining. “We should have a census …

President Akufo Addo has sacked Colonel Michael Opoku, much to the excitement of the new recruits at the National Security Agency. Col. Opoku was the notorious Director of Operations at the National Security who ordered the rallied thugs from the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) embedded in the National Security …

Residents of Hia, a farming community in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti Region have declared war on Chinese miners in the community following the banishment of Assemblyman for Hia Anthony Kwakye Aborah by the traditional leaders. On Thursday, February 11, 2021, reported about the banishment of the assemblyman …

Illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, continues to be a scourge on our conscience as a nation with huge impact on the environment. A recent report filed by Erastus Asare Donkor of Luv FM, showed that, despite the many efforts and assurances by authorities to end galamsey, the activities of illegal miners is …