[ 2021-02-25 ]

I never seized excavators during my tenure as Lands Minister – Amewu
Minister-Designate for Railway Development, John
Peter Amewu has insisted that he never seized
excavators during his tenure as Minister of Lands
and Natural Resources.

A number of the excavators that were at illegal
mining sites were seized by the Inter-Ministerial
Committee Task Force on Illegal Mining during the
peak of the war against illegal mining in Ghana

Peter Amewu during his vetting however said that
the excavators were withdrawn and not seized.

“While I was the Minister for Lands and Natural
Resources, I never seized any excavator. What I
did when I was the Minister for that sector was to
ask for the withdrawal of excavators from mining
sites. About 500 were withdrawn from the sites,
but they were not seized,” Peter Amewu told
Parliament’s Appointment Committee.


The excavators became a topical issue during
Amewu’s tenure after it emerged that they had
disappeared from the district assemblies where
they were being kept.

There were calls for sanctions against persons
behind the disappearance of the excavators.

Source - Citinewsroom

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