{"id":377475,"date":"2017-11-25T12:24:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T12:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=377475"},"modified":"2017-11-26T09:10:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T09:10:42","slug":"citi-fms-kojo-agyeman-honoured-ghana-mining-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=377475","title":{"rendered":"Citi FM&#8217;s Kojo Agyeman honoured at Ghana Mining Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Citi FM<\/strong> reporter, Kojo Agyeman emerged first runner-up in the 2017 edition of the Ghana Mining Industry Awards for his report on the pollution of the Birim River as a result of galamsey activities.<\/p>\n<p>Kojo Agyeman&#8217;s documentary focused on the devastating effects of illegal mining on the River.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary also told the story from the viewpoint of residents in Kyebi and its environs who use the water from the water body.<\/p>\n<p>The Best Mining Reporter went to Edem Srem, an environmental journalist. The ceremony was organised by the Ghana Chamber of Mines.<\/p>\n<p>The Mining Company of the year went to Golden Star Resources Limited which operates in Prestea and Bogoso in the Western region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#StopGalamseyNow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kojo Agyeman&#8217;s reports were key to <strong>Citi FM<\/strong>&#8216;s anti-galamsey campaign, &#8216;Stop Galamsey Now&#8217; earlier this\u00a0year.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign and public support eventually prompted the Minister of Lands and National Resources, John Peter Amewu to crack down on the illegal miners.<\/p>\n<p>A six-month ban was imposed and was eventually extended by three more months to January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citi FM reporter, Kojo Agyeman emerged first runner-up in the 2017 edition of the Ghana Mining Industry Awards for his report on the pollution of the Birim River as a result of galamsey activities. Kojo Agyeman&#8217;s documentary focused on the devastating effects of illegal mining on the River. The documentary also told the story from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":377481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3,14920,14919],"class_list":["post-377475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-kojo-agyeman","tag-mining-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377475","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=377475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/377481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}