Tag Archives: GALAMSEY

Some police officers attached to the Axim District Police in the Western Region have been humiliated by suspected illegal miners also known as “Galamseyers.” The Galamseyers humiliated the policemen they accused of collecting bribes from them and attempted to arrest one of them. The policemen numbering about four were captured …

A group of police officers have been captured in a video showing a very tense standoff with some gang of alleged illegal miners (galamsey operators). In the video sighted by GhanaWeb, a supposed leader of the gang is seen accosting a police officer and accusing the officer of attempting to …

The Otumfuo Commemorative Gold Coin project is instituting measures for the formation of a task force to combat illegal gold mining (galamsey) in the Ashanti Region. The task force, to be known as Asanteman Task Force Against Illegal Mining, will be a corporate social responsibility initiative of the Otumfuo Commemorative …

Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, former Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, has been summoned by the Ghana Police Service’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in connection with allegations he made about the involvement of some presidential staff in illegal small-scale mining (galamsey). According to the Daily Graphic, the invitation comes after President Nana Addo Dankwa …

A 22-year-old Senior High School graduate, Evans Wireko, has been stoned to death at a galamsey site by some unidentified group of people at Fobinso near Denkyira Obuasi, now New Obuasi, in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region. The Dunkwa Ayamfuri Government Hospital is also treating another …

The kingmakers and elders of the Amanrakpanyim Family who are the custodial owners of the Gwria Traditional Stool have denied knowledge of one Angama Tuagyan who is parading himself as the chief of the Gwira Traditional Area. At a press conference on Saturday, February 4, 2023, the allodial owners of …

Lands and Natural Resources Ministry has revealed that it is set to take delivery of four aircraft from the Ghana Armed Forces to aid the fight against illegal mining also known as galamsey. Deputy Lands Minister, George Mireku Duker said the aircraft which belongs to the Armed Forces will come …

he  lifeless bodies of two brothers have been retrieved after they allegedly fell into a pit dug in search of precious minerals at Watereso, near Daatano in the Amansie South  District of the Ashanti Region. The deceased according to report were drown   while fishing in the pit on Monday January 9, 2023. The …

The Asantehene, Otumfour Osei Tutu II, says chiefs in the country do not need guns to halt illegal mining activities famed as galamsey on their lands. The overlord of the Asante Kingdom believes, chiefs in the country can help halt illegal mining if they were to apply the power they …

A Ghanaian man bravely confronted a Chinese man, who said he is called Akufo-Addo and is leading illegal small-scale mining (galamsey) activities in his community in Obuasi in the Ashanti Region. A viral video sighted by GhanaWeb, showed the man instructing the Chinese man to stop his men, who were mining. …