{"id":319690,"date":"2017-05-16T12:44:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T12:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=319690"},"modified":"2017-05-16T12:44:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T12:44:52","slug":"atiwa-youth-besiege-mining-company-set-equipment-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/atiwa-youth-besiege-mining-company-set-equipment-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiwa youth besiege mining company, set equipment on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 300 youth at Abekoase in the Atiwa district of the Eastern Region attacked and set ablaze mining equipment belonging to\u00a0Agyei Dankwa Investment, a small scale mining company.<\/p>\n<p>The youth, who restrained two security guards of the company at the site on Sunday, set fire to two excavators following government&#8217;s directive for all illegal mining activities to stop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Agyei-Dankwa-investment-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-319700\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Agyei-Dankwa-investment-5.jpg\" alt=\"agyei-dankwa-investment-5\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Agyei-Dankwa-investment-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-319699\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Agyei-Dankwa-investment-4.jpg\" alt=\"agyei-dankwa-investment-4\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The equipment affected by the youth&#8217;s raid included two new Liebherr excavators, three heavy duty generators, a new nelson gold concentrator, two drums of engine oil, two drums of hydraulic oil, a 5000 litre poly tank container, 6000 litres diesel container, \u00a0six water pumps, sets of tools and equipment boxes and wielding plants all amounting to about USD$1.5million<\/p>\n<p><strong>Company was not operating<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The aggrieved CEO of the mining company, Patrick Agyei Dankwa, who took journalist and police to the site this morning [Wednesday] to assess the extent of damage said his company was not yet operating.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dankwa explained that he had acquired all his legal documents and was constructing a palace for the community, as requested by the chiefs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Agyei-Dankwa-investment-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-319698\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Agyei-Dankwa-investment-3.jpg\" alt=\"agyei-dankwa-investment-3\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Agyei-Dankwa-investment-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-319695\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Agyei-Dankwa-investment-8.jpg\" alt=\"agyei-dankwa-investment-8\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He has however called on the President and other relevant stakeholders to bring the perpetrators to book or he will take the law into his own hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Neil Nii Amatey\u00a0Kanarku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 300 youth at Abekoase in the Atiwa district of the Eastern Region attacked and set ablaze mining equipment belonging to\u00a0Agyei Dankwa Investment, a small scale mining company. 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