New Patriotic Party [NPP] MP for Manso Adubia in the Ashanti Region, Yaw Frimpong, has said the suggestion for a shoot-to-kill approach in dealing with illegal miners in the country is inappropriate.<\/p>\n
The MP, whose constituency is one of the worst affected by the activities of illegal miners believes a more pragmatic approach should be adopted.<\/p>\n
He is of the view that a shoot-to-kill approach will not end the menace.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”YfvpgYuWOtn0Q99rNgXbvMRV9AWiZEcI”]His comments come a day after the Deputy Speaker of Parliament; Joe Osei Wusu, suggested that the security agencies be given the power to shoot at recalcitrant illegal miners.<\/p>\n
The Deputy Speaker had suggested that this is the only way to deter them from engaging in the act.<\/p>\n
He made the statement while responding to Member of Parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Muburak\u2019s concerns on the burning of some tipper trucks allegedly used in sand winning in his constituency.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, Mr. Frimpong indicated that, that approach will not be in the larger interest of the country.<\/p>\n \u201cI do not believe in some of these drastic measures because innocent people get killed because of such policies. I remember when my Deputy Speaker made this comment, I sought for clarification and he said he did not mean Ghanaians but foreigners. Those who come here to destroy our heritage. He had a point but I felt he went beyond a certain limit because as a law maker we go by due process.”<\/p>\n \u201cIf someone offends the law, you have to arrest that person. I am a development consultant and I believe there is no single solution to any problem.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Patriotic Party [NPP] MP for Manso Adubia in the Ashanti Region, Yaw Frimpong, has said the suggestion for a shoot-to-kill approach in dealing with illegal miners in the country is inappropriate. The MP, whose constituency is one of the worst affected by the activities of illegal miners believes a more pragmatic approach should be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":10676,"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":[150,3,17892,17891],"class_list":["post-409782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-galamsey","tag-ghana-news","tag-shoot-to-kill","tag-yaw-frimpong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409782","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=409782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}