District Chief Executive (DCE) for Fanteakwa South District Assembly in the Eastern Region, Mr. Ernest Ofosu, has threatened to chase out all the illegal miners in the district.
According to the DCE, there is many mining companies in the Fanteakwa South but most of them are not operating legally.
Therefore, he sees their activities to be destroying most water bodies in the area.
Mr. Ofosu adds, they have had a lot of meetings with the miners and warned them to do a genuine work to ensure no water bodies in the area get affected but they seems to be doing the opposite.
With this, he said, starting Monday, June 13, 2022, they are going to make the area uncomfortable for those who mines around the river banks in the District, such as Birim river, Aguso river, and Akleso river.
“I will arrest and put them before court and tell the court why they are destroying the water bodies.”
He told Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH during a green Ghana project where his district is targeted of planting 400,000 tree seedlings. But they planted over 2,000 tree seedlings.
The programme took place at one of the Kibi Gold Field Company Limited’s reclamation 15 acres of lands. Some selected schools in the district also joined the greening Ghana project.
The Managing Director of Kibi Gold Field Company Limited, Dr. Kofi Agyemang also however emphasized that their firm is practising a good system of clamation in which they have reclaimed 15 acres of land for other plantation programmes.
“So when the Forestry Commission, District Assembly and the Chiefs of Fanteakwa South came to see us that they are coming to plant trees quickly we released the reclamation 15acres of land for them to be used for the planting”, he stated.
Dr. Kofi Agyemang justified by noting that, their operations are done without the use of chemicals during mining.
Chief of Osino, Osabarima Otu Darko IV thus; warned that any illegal miner [galamseyers] who would be arrested shall be dealt with the law.
He indicated that mining in the area have brought no development to the area whereas the uncover pits has claimed the lives of children.
In conclusion, Osabarima Otu Darko pointed out that henceforth, land reclamation would be use to plant consumable crops like cocoyam due to their fast growing status.
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
Source// Obohnews.
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