{"id":324394,"date":"2017-06-01T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=324394"},"modified":"2017-06-01T15:00:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:00:39","slug":"3-chinese-ghanaian-arrested-for-flouting-mining-ban-near-kyebi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=324394","title":{"rendered":"3 Chinese, Ghanaian arrested for flouting mining ban near Kyebi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in Kyebi on Wednesday arrested three Chinese nationals and their Ghanaian counterpart who were mining in a forest at Segyimase, a village close to Kyebi in the Eastern Region.<\/p>\n

The three Chinese; Leo, Xing, Xun, and the Ghanaian, Abu Douglas, were flouting government’s ban on all forms of small-scale mining in the country, and were back mining illegally on their site.<\/p>\n

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Detective-sergeant Kamal Gumah of the Kibi DCID, who confirmed the arrest to Citi News<\/strong>, stated that they effected the arrest with the help of the sub-committee of the mines and environment in Kyebi.<\/p>\n

“On May 31st at about 12:30 pm,\u00a0Sergeant Emmanuel Norshie of Kibi District Police Command i\/c D\/Cpl Thomas Kanbi on board vehicle with registration no_GP3582 driven by PC. Frank Hagan with the help of East Akyem Municipal Agric, Mines and Environment subcommittee, arrested and brought to Kibi charge office three Chinese nationals and a Ghanaian namely Mr Leo,Mr Xing,Mr Xun and Douglas Abu and reported that the above-named suspects were met at a section of Akyem Segymaase near Danyame Farms engaging in illegal mining with one excavator machine.”<\/p>\n

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Detective-sergeant Kamal Gumah added\u00a0that “efforts are being made to track the excavator to the station for further action, and we also took some photographs at the scene for evidential purposes.”<\/p>\n

He said the suspects are yet to be cautioned and are still in custody.<\/p>\n

“We have brought the three Chinese to the station including their Ghanaian accomplice, the necessary documentation will be made as soon as possible”.<\/p>\n

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By: Neil Nii Amatey Kanarku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police in Kyebi on Wednesday arrested three Chinese nationals and their Ghanaian counterpart who were mining in a forest at Segyimase, a village close to Kyebi in the Eastern Region. The three Chinese; Leo, Xing, Xun, and the Ghanaian, Abu Douglas, were flouting government’s ban on all forms of small-scale mining in the country, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":324405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7679,15,7680,3,5405],"class_list":["post-324394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-child-marriage-in-ghana","tag-chinese","tag-galamsey-arrest","tag-ghana-news","tag-kyebi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}