Tag Archives: GALAMSEY

Famous Axim galamsey leader, Kwame Ato Asare Ani who was arrested after a video of him with some illegal miners, molesting a police officer at a galamsey site to the point where the police officer knelt down to apologise went viral, has once again made headlines following reports of an …

The police service has written to Prof Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng as it opens an investigation into his 37-page galamsey report, from which a docket is to be built for prosecution. This was revealed by Attorney General Godfred Dame. He said that the docket would eventually get to his office for the already-started due …

Two teenage girls have been confirmed dead after fallen into a galamsey pit at Sanfo-Aduam in the Bekwai Municipality of the Ashanti Region. The two who have been identified as Alicia and Anita Asare, all 13- years and students of Sanfo-Aduam SDA primary school, were said to have been trapped …

Broadcast journalist Bridget Otoo has been called out for attempting to drag Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia into the leaked explosive “galamsey” report by Professor Frimpong Boateng, which has accused many stalwarts of the governing New Patriotic Party(NPP) of being involved in illegal mining. Following the leakage of the report …

Former Environment Minister, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng has been in the news following a 36-page statement he released on illegal small-scale mining in Ghana. The former Minister, while submitting a report on the work of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), not only cited the challenges the committee faced …

A report by the Chairman of the dissolved Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has cited Information Minister, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah as scheming to run him down. The 37-page report filed by the former Minister for Environment, Science and Technology dated March 19, 2021, was to brief the …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s home in Kyebi was affected by the activities of illegal small-scale mining (galamsey), a confidential report has revealed. The report in question was authored by former Minister of Environment and Technology, Prof. Frimpong Boateng, at the end of his tenure as leader of the government’s galamsey …

Kwame Ato Asare Ani is the name currently dominating the media space in Ghana following events around a viral video in which he and a group of men were captured in a heated confrontation with some police officers. The police have since labeled him as the leader of a criminal …

Kwame Ato Asare Ani, an alleged leader of a galamsey (illegal small-scale mining) gang in Axim, a community in the West Region, has made headlines over the past few days after a viral video showed a policeman on his knees begging him. GhanaWeb on Sunday, April 2, 2023, reported about a …

Kwame Ato Asare Ani, a man declared wanted by the Ghana Police Service has spoken from a hideout explaining a circumstances under which he was captured in a standoff with some police officers. According to him, he is not an armed robber as described by the Ghana Police Service but rather an informant to …