Tag Archives: MINERS

The minority in Parliament has condemned the alleged torturing of some young men purported to be illegal miners, by some men in uniform. The young men, alleged to be illegal miners, were captured on video laying in mud with some uniformed men looking like soldiers, wielding guns over them. The …

Two people have drowned in a galamsey pit at Manso Muano in the Amansie South District of the Ashanti region. The incident occurred on Monday, 11 July 2022, when the victims went to mine for gold in the abandoned galamsey pit. The Assembly Member for the area, Mr. Achempong Duku …

Two miners identified by police as Mallam Salifu, 45, and Mallam Seidu, 50, have died at a mining site in Adumanu, a community near the mining town of Obuasi in the Ashanti Region. The two reported to be employees of Adumanu Community Mining are said to have died when a …

Four bodies were found on the side of a Benoni road on Tuesday, wrapped in blankets and plastic. Police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Mavela Masondo said: The bodies are not identified yet, but are suspected to be that of illegal miners. He said police received an anonymous tip-off about the bodies. An …

The Forestry Commission, through its surveillance task force, has arrested 55 illegal miners in the Atewa Forest Reserve over the last six months. Madam Joyce Ofori Kwafo, Head, Corporate Affairs and Media Relations, Forestry Commission, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said a total of 15 different operations …

Two females have reportedly died after a pit they were illegally mining at Denkyira Ayamfuri caved in. The small scale mining pit is said to have collapsed at about 3:00pm, Wednesday, March 17. The bodies of the two middle-aged women, believed to be Northerners, were trapped, while other miners managed …

The Ghana Armed Forces(GAF) have become the subject of multiple lawsuits following weeks of a clampdown on small scale mining activities in some districts of the Ashanti region, sanctioned by the Central Command as part of Operation Halt II. Several mining equipment, some parked several kilometres away from any mine …

  Five illegal miners have been arrested at Buabenso in the Adansi Akrofuom of the Ashanti Region. The Obuasi police acted upon a tip-off that a group has defied the government order to halt illegal mining also known as Galamsey. The police command swooped on these five illegal miners at Buabenso …

The District Chief Executive of Adansi Akrofuom in the Ashanti Region, Maurice Jonas Woode, has led an operation to arrest two illegal miners who were operating in the Supuma Forest near Betenase in the Akrofuom District. The operation team also included personnel from the Ghana Police Service and the Forestry …

  Three illegal miners have been jailed five years each by a Circuit Court in Koforidua for engaging in illegal mining at Tentenku No.8 near Kofi Pare in the Kraboa Coaltar district of the Eastern Region. The convicts, Alhassan Abass, 28, Ibrahim Mohammed, 45, and Munkaila Djebo, 38, were apprehended …