Minister of Inside Affairs, Hon. Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak has introduced that foreigners who will likely be caught participating in unlawful mining and fraudulent activities will likely be deported again to their nations.
Addressing some safety brokers, Hon. Muntaka lamented over the motion of foreigners engaged in unlawful mining and the results on the surroundings.
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A lot of them are chopping our timber and destroying our water our bodies. We have now resolved, as a brand new coverage that inside two days, whether or not [they] are doing unlawful mining or [they’re] into any fraudulent exercise, once we arrest the foreigners our first choice is to take you again to your nation. And that is one thing that we’re very critical about.
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The Interior Minister made it clear that there was little interest in prosecuting foreigner who’re destroying the Ghanaian surroundings. He additional revealed that this was enhanced by an official handle to the Legal professional Common to keep away from prosecuting foreigner for the above-mentioned crimes.
You’re the first level of name once we make arrest or when individuals are arrested after which individuals are handed over to you. I’ve formally written to the Legal professional Common, we’re not eager about prosecuting people who find themselves destroying our surroundings and who’re defrauding folks throughout the globe. Once we ship them again to their nation, we put them on our cease record by no means to have the ability to come again to our nation.
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The struggle towards unlawful mining by the federal government has heightened just lately, following a warfare declaration by the Ghana Police Service and a recent arrest in the Western Region, the place eleven people, 4 of which had been foreigners had been caught in unlawful mining actions.
