{"id":401679,"date":"2018-02-16T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=401679"},"modified":"2018-02-16T05:46:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T05:46:16","slug":"er-three-jailed-for-illegal-mining-at-segyimase-kyebi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=401679","title":{"rendered":"E\/R: Three jailed for illegal mining at Segyimase Kyebi"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Koforidua Circuit Court has sentenced a 27-year-old carpenter Akwasi Agyemang and a 37-year-old farmer, Yaw Osei to four years in prison for mining illegally at Segyimase Kyebi in the Atewa Forest reserve in the Eastern Region.<\/p>\n

A third person, 35-year-old tiler, Kwasi Poku, has been sentenced to serve two years in prison and is due to reappear in court.<\/p>\n

The three were all convicted\u00a0 after they pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit crime, mining without authority, mining without license and possession of firearms without lawful authority.<\/p>\n

They were arrested on Monday by personnel from the Forestry Commission following a tip off.<\/p>\n

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The Presiding Judge, Her Lordship, Ms Mercy Addai-Kotei sentenced the accused persons to pay a penalty unit of GH\u00a22,500 and in addition, serve two years in prison after they pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy to commit crime.<\/p>\n

On the charge of mining without a license, Ms Addai-Kotei sentenced Akwasi Agyemang and Yaw Osei to pay a fine of GH\u00a22,500 and in addition, serve two years in prison with hard labour.<\/p>\n

For possessing of firearms without lawful authority, the judge sentenced Yaw Osei,who claimed ownership of the locally manufactured pistol retrieved when the three were arrested, to pay a fine of GH\u00a21,000 or in default serve 2 years in prison with hard labour.<\/p>\n

Kwasi Poku, who pleaded not guilty to the charge of mining without a license has been remanded into prison custody to reappear on March 1.<\/p>\n

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

A Koforidua Circuit Court has sentenced a 27-year-old carpenter Akwasi Agyemang and a 37-year-old farmer, Yaw Osei to four years in prison for mining illegally at Segyimase Kyebi in the Atewa Forest reserve in the Eastern Region. A third person, 35-year-old tiler, Kwasi Poku, has been sentenced to serve two years in prison and is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":401680,"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":[5,11],"tags":[1667,276,3,506],"class_list":["post-401679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-arrest","tag-court","tag-ghana-news","tag-illegal-mining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401679","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=401679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/401680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}