Tag Archives: Illegal Mining

Nana Obiri Boahen, a private legal practitioner, has expressed support for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s stance on mining, should he become President. Speaking on a Kumasi-based radio station, Lawyer Obiri Boahen emphasized that halting illegal mining is impractical given the country’s rich gold resources. He argued that it is crucial to …

  Four individuals have been apprehended in Atwima Nerebehi amid clashes between suspected illegal miners and local residents, escalating tension in the Ashanti Region.   The confrontation ignited when enraged youths sought to expel the illegal miners from their operation site situated within the community’s cemetery.   Responding to the …

Renowned Ghanaian surgeon, Professor Frimpong-Boateng, says his relationship with president Akufo-Addo is still cordial despite his controversial report as the Chairperson of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining. In a 36-page document on the fight against illegal mining in the country, he accused some government officials of having interfered in …

Former Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng has taken a dig at Gabby Otchere-Darko, a leading Member of the New Patriotic Party following the latter’s response to his report on illegal small-scale mining also known as galamsey in the country.   Prof. Frimpong-Boateng accused Mr. …

Former Secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) says Prof Frimpong Boateng’s associates were also engaging in galamsey. According to Charles Bissiw, he pointed this out to the former Environment Minister, adding that “Prof Boateng knows the truth.” He listed a number of them including Francis Owusu Achiaw, …

The Asantehene, His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, wants financiers of illegal mining (galamsey) in the Ashanti Region to be exposed rather than being shielded. He expressed concern that the real culprits behind galamsey are being protected while the labourers who work for pittances in the illegal mining sites are …

An Accra High Court has threatened to release four alleged accomplices of En Huang, aka Aisha Huang, an alleged illegal miner, due to the absence of interpreters. “I will adjourn the case for the last time, if we don’t get these interpreters (Chinese and Vietnamese), I will release the accused …

Despite the renewed conversations about illegal mining in the country, some of the persons involved seem unperturbed. Not even the threats by government in face of the ongoing trial of ‘galamsey’ kingpin Aisha Huang has discouraged some of them as a latest video shows. In a visual that popped up …

A former national chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, says his law firm is ready to defend the four accomplices of Aisha Huang because they are innocent. He said they have no reason to believe or act otherwise, adding that the four Chinese nationals deserve full legal …

A primary five pupil has pleaded passionately with President Akufo-Addo to act with some sense of urgency in the fight against illegal mining, aka ‘galamsey’. Eleven-year-old Kelvin Nhyira Ansong begged the President to order the immediate deployment of soldiers and police officers to mining areas to ensure the arrest of …