A Koforidua Circuit Court B has remanded into prison custody four persons who were arrested for mining illegally at Bomaa near Kwabeng in the Atewa District of the Eastern Region.<\/p>\n
The suspects; a 17-year-old student Oscar Lartey; a 25-year-old driver, Dampah, a 29-year-old miner,\u00a0Logo Kwabena and Kofi Asomaning, a 38-year-old farmer, were busily mining in the Atewa Forest Reserve when they were arrested.<\/p>\n
The suspects pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit crime to wit mining and mining without a license, and were remanded into prison custody by her Ladyship Mercy Addea-Kotei.<\/p>\n
They will reappear in court on March 8, 2018.<\/p>\n
The Anyinam Range Manager of the Forest Service Division of the Forestry Commission, Palmer Aikens, who led the arrest of the miners retrieved 2 mining buckets, two head pans, a washing carpet,\u00a0shovels, one\u00a0pickaxe, gold dust, three pumping machines and food items such as rice, tinned tomatoes, onions and cooking utensil.<\/p>\n
The Assistant Manager in charge of the range, Palmer Aikens, expressed worry about the continuous illegal mining activities in forest reserves despite the nationwide ban on small scale mining.<\/p>\n
He also appealed to chiefs and opinion leaders to commit themselves to the fight against illegal mining.<\/p>\n
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By: Neil Nii Amatey Kanarku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Koforidua Circuit Court B has remanded into prison custody four persons who were arrested for mining illegally at Bomaa near Kwabeng in the Atewa District of the Eastern Region. The suspects; a 17-year-old student Oscar Lartey; a 25-year-old driver, Dampah, a 29-year-old miner,\u00a0Logo Kwabena and Kofi Asomaning, a 38-year-old farmer, were busily mining in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":403495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[17285,150,3],"yoast_head":"\n