All 45 illegal miners arrested in Bole in the Northern Region have been remanded in police custody.<\/p>\n
They are to re-appear in court on September 4, 2014.<\/p>\n
They were arraigned before a Tamale Circuit Court presided over by His Honour Senyo Amedehe on Thursday August 21, 2014.<\/p>\n
Forty-two of them have been identified as ECOWAS nationals from Guinea, Burkina Faso and Mali.<\/p>\n
They were rounded up by authorities of the Northern Regional Command of the Ghana Immigration Service.<\/p>\n
The immigration officers who carried the operation retrieved mining equipment, motorbikes and an undisclosed amount from them.<\/p>\n
Assistant Director of Immigration in charge of the Northern Region, Eric Afari told Citi News<\/strong> that stringent measures have been put in place at some 13 identified unapproved routes in the Northern Region to curtail the influx of foreign nationals into the country.<\/p>\n The Bole district which is bordering Cote d\u2019Ivoire has gained notoriety for illegal mining activities in the Northern Region.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By:\u00a0 Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All 45 illegal miners arrested in Bole in the Northern Region have been remanded in police custody. They are to re-appear in court on September 4, 2014. They were arraigned before a Tamale Circuit Court presided over by His Honour Senyo Amedehe on Thursday August 21, 2014. Forty-two of them have been identified as ECOWAS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":40765,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[54,17],"class_list":["post-41064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-delta-force","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41064","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=41064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}