Police in Akani within the Western Area have seized 4 excavators and arrested 9 people following an intelligence-led operation by a particular police workforce towards unlawful mining.
Two of the seized excavators had been reportedly being escorted by armed males believed to be navy personnel.
In line with the Director of Particular Operations at Police Headquarters, ACP Eric Asiedu, the operation was launched following credible intelligence indicating suspicious motion of industrial quality mining tools exterior the Samreboï Township. Led by ASP Mr. Adorye, the workforce of cops proceeded to a location the place they intercepted two low-bed vans, every carrying an excavator.
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The workforce had earlier performed a profitable raid at a big illegal mining website recognized as Akani, located on the outskirts of Asankragua.
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The operation resulted within the arrest of 9 suspects and the seizure of mining equipment getting used for unlawful mining actions. This operation kinds a part of the workforce’s sustained efforts to enrich the imaginative and prescient of the Inspector-Normal of Police (IGP) in combating unlawful mining and safeguarding Ghana’s pure assets.
Police have since secured all tools concerned.
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In the identical spirit of combacting unlawful mining, a number of weeks in the past, Pulse reported an operation by the Ashanti Area Anti-Galamsey Taskforce which executed a pre-dawn operation within the Adansi enclave, ensuing within the confiscation of 13 excavators and a number of arrests at unlawful mining websites.Captain (Rtd) John Kwame Jabari, chief of the duty drive, described this as their simplest operation thus far in combating unlawful mining.
”We achieved exceptional success as we secured almost all focused excavators and apprehended suspects at each website we raided”.
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The duty drive attributes its latest achievements to revised operational methods.
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”We have frequently tailored our strategies, however our present strategy represents a perfected system.Present operations prioritise defending waterways and stopping additional destruction of cocoa farms, constructing on earlier successes in reclaiming illegally exploited forest reserves”.
The Adansi space has suffered significantly extreme environmental injury from these illegal actions.
