{"id":394687,"date":"2018-01-24T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=394687"},"modified":"2018-01-24T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T16:02:00","slug":"two-jailed-for-6-months-for-illegal-deforestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/two-jailed-for-6-months-for-illegal-deforestation\/","title":{"rendered":"Two jailed for 6 months for \u2018illegal\u2019 deforestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bekwai Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region has sentenced two persons to six months in prison with hard labour for felling trees without authorisation at the Supuma Forest reserve in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>The two, Stephen Asare; 43 and Akwasi Kwarteng; 52 were arrested at Betenase near Obuasi by officials from the Forestry Commission for the felling of Guarea trees specifically and processing them into lumber.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-394690 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Trees-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Trees-2.jpg 540w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Trees-2-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News,<\/strong> Bekwai Municipal Manager of the Forestry Commission, George Agbenoshie, narrated how the two were arrested, saying \u201cduring our usual patrols on the 10<sup>th<\/sup> of January 2018, we happened to enter into Esikuma forest reserve and we heard a sound of a chainsaw machine. We traced the sound to the scene and identified two persons namely; Stephen Asare and Kwasi Kwarteng. These people were immediately apprehended and handed over to the Bekwai Circuit Court for prosecution. They have been put in prison for 6 months with hard labour.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Agbenoshie further indicated that his outfit will strengthen efforts to halt such activities in the area.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-394690 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Trees-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Trees-2.jpg 540w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Trees-2-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not a lucrative business to engage in chainsaw activities. We want to protect our forest reserves. We want to involve all the communities to support. We want to involve our stakeholders to come on board so we can fight these illegalities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Hafiz Tijani\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bekwai Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region has sentenced two persons to six months in prison with hard labour for felling trees without authorisation at the Supuma Forest reserve in the Ashanti Region. The two, Stephen Asare; 43 and Akwasi Kwarteng; 52 were arrested at Betenase near Obuasi by officials from the Forestry Commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":394689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[1667,3],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Two jailed for 6 months for \u2018illegal\u2019 deforestation - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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