[ 2017-04-25 ]

Illegal miners in Tarkwa promise to show MP 'pepper' for planning to stop galams
Illegal miners in Tarkwa-Breman in the Prestea
Huni-Valley of the Western Region have said they
will teach their Member of Parliament (MP),
Barbara Oteng Gyasi a bitter lesson in the next
general election for neglecting them.

The miners expressed disgust at the first-time MP
and Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources
for duping them and lying straight to their faces
before the 2016 General election.

They said, "before the 2016 general election, the
then opposition New Patriotic Party assured us
that when it assumed the reins of government, it
would encourage mining, hence we the youth in the
area voted massively for the MP and President Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo".

The miners expressed their anger when the Sector
Minister, Mr John Peter Amewu, led a team to visit
some mining sites in the Western Region on
Sunday.

The visit followed the expiration of the
three-week ultimatum the Minister gave to all
illegal miners to evacuate their equipment and
leave mining sites.

Since Tarkwa is a mining area, 90 per cent of the
youth in the town are engaged in galamsey which
they use to take care of their families and to
them that’s the only source of income they are
willing to engage in.

Source - yen.com

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