{"id":79672,"date":"2015-01-06T08:35:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T08:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=79672"},"modified":"2015-01-06T08:36:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T08:36:39","slug":"chinese-miners-invade-brong-ahafo-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=79672","title":{"rendered":"Chinese miners invade Brong Ahafo Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of Chinese illegal miners have reportedly invaded Ata- Ne-Ata, a farming community in the Asutifi South District in the Brong Ahafo Region.<\/p>\n<p>The Assembly Member of Woromumuso, Atta-Ne-Atta Amanfrom Electoral Area, Mustapha Mohammed who confirmed this to<strong> Citi News<\/strong> said the Chinese illegal miners were accompanied by some sub-chiefs from the Hwidiem Traditional who are custodians of the land.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;8XQyElsRej3zBlRcy21E7je44OygRNJ4&#8243;]\u201cThey came here with sub-chiefs from Hwidiem Tradional Council and said the owner of the area is Khadamar Mining Company and they have released the land out for the Chinese miners to work on\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the illegal miners have also employed some residents to work in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Paramount Chief of Hwidiem Traditional Area, Nana Appiah Dwaa Boafo II declined to speak on the matter when contacted.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini in 2014 revealed that cabinet will soon approve a memorandum that will prescribe <span style=\"color: #333333;\">severe punishment for<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong> i<a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/04\/08\/cabinet-to-approve-aw-to-punish-illegal-miners\/\" target=\"_blank\">llegal miners in Ghana.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28508\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Inusah-Fuseini-citifmonline.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28508\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Inusah-Fuseini-citifmonline.jpg\" alt=\"Alhaji Inusah Fuseini\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Inusah-Fuseini-citifmonline.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Inusah-Fuseini-citifmonline-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alhaji Inusah Fuseini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However a non-governmental organisation,<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/04\/30\/galamsey-on-the-rise-wacam\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"> WACAM, in the same year revealed<\/span><\/a><\/strong> that illegal mining activities were increasing in Ghana, despite moves by a Presidential taskforce to put down the unlawful trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven installations that are not commissioned, such as Bui and other areas are under threat from Galamsey,\u201d a top official of WACAM, Hannah Owusu Koranteng, stated in April, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The term \u2018Galamsey\u2019 is a Ghanaian slang used loosely to describe illegal mining activities around the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Atiewin Mohammed \/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of Chinese illegal miners have reportedly invaded Ata- Ne-Ata, a farming community in the Asutifi South District in the Brong Ahafo Region. The Assembly Member of Woromumuso, Atta-Ne-Atta Amanfrom Electoral Area, Mustapha Mohammed who confirmed this to Citi News said the Chinese illegal miners were accompanied by some sub-chiefs from the Hwidiem Traditional who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5787,"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":[],"tags":[62,43,38],"class_list":["post-79672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-exports","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79672","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=79672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}