Galamsey Activities Along Konongo-Accra Highway Halted By Local Authorities

• The illegal mining activity being conducted along the Konongo-Accra highway has been stopped
• Asante Akim Central Municipal Security Council took action to curb the mining after media reports
• The local government has begun the reclamation of the degraded land from the mining activities

Illegal mining along the Konongo-Accra highway has been temporarily halted.

Residents have called for a sustained plan to prevent the illegal miners from returning to the site.

TV3 News first reported on illegal mining along the highway earlier in August, which polluted the Owerri River.

The reports prompted action from the Asante Akim Central Municipal Security Council.

TV3 News reported that the reclamation of the degraded land has also begun.

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“The authorities should intensify monitoring at the site to ensure no illegal activity goes on. If not, the miners may come back”, Ismael Issah, a farmer, told the station.

The Municipal Chief Executive for Asante Akim Central, Robert Yaw Kwakye, assured residents that the illegal mining activity would not resume.

“This is our terrain. Whatever means we have to follow to make sure that they’re not there, we will do so to protect the area and make sure that nobody returns."

Otumfuo destools three chiefs

This comes as the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II stripped three chiefs of their titles and responsibilities.

The three chiefs from the region were destooled for alleged involvement in illegal mining activity.

The chiefs in question are the Gyaasehene, Akyeamehene, and Baamuhene of Sabronum.

Concerns about political actors in illegal mining also resurfaced when the New Patriotic Party’s Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, dared former president John Mahama to stop his mining in forest reserves.

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Otumfuo destools Kwaprahene

YEN.com.gh also reported that the Otumfuo destooled Baffour Adugyemfuo Kumani over the alleged double sale of land and oath violations.

The Asantehene issued the removal order for the Kwapra chief at a Manhyia Palace sitting, fulfilling a promise he made in October last year.

He also extended the destoolment to sub-chiefs with poor counsel and called for individuals with land issues in Kwapra to come forward.

Proofread by Bruce Douglas, senior copy editor at YEN.com.gh

Source: YEN.com.gh