[ 2019-03-05 ]

47 Nigerians and Burkinabes arrested for galamsey
Forty-Seven (47) Nigeriens and Burkinabes have
been arrested in a joint operation by Operation
Vanguard Taskforce and the Kwarbeng Police in the
Eastern Region.

The suspects were arrested at Asamama in the Atiwa
West District.

The Operation was led by Commanding Officer Obed
Asante and Kwarbeng District Police Commander, DSP
Harold Opoku Yamoah.

The Public Relations Officer of the Eastern
Regional Police Command DSP Ebenezer Tetteh told
Starr News the Operation team retrieved 48
complete sets of computerized gold detecting
machines, 41 pickaxes, cash amount of GHC6,155,
CFA 69,000, Guinea Franc (GNF) 30,000, 8 news
batteries and Two headsets.

The latest is the highest arrest involving Foreign
Nationals in the region after a similar arrest in
2017, which involved 26 foreigners.

In August 2017, the Koforidua Circuit Court
‘B’ Presided over by Her Honour Mercy
Adei Kotei on convicted these foreign nationals
mostly Nigeriens arrested in the Atewa Forest
Reserve engaging in illegal mining to a total fine
of GHC15,690,000 in default serve 139 years.

25 of the convicts were Nigeriens while 1 was from
Guinea Conakry

Three other Ghanaians accomplices were convicted
to fine of GHC30,000 each in default serve three
years imprisonment after they were all found
guilty of charges of conspiracy to commit crime,
illegal mining and mining without license.

Source - Starrfm

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