Source: Africa Publicity
Personnel of the Ghana Police Service have arrested at least 26 persons for alleged illegal gold mining activities in a forest reserve near Samreboi in the Western Region of Ghana.
The arrests form part of a renewed nationwide crackdown against illegal mining popularly known as galamsey in Ghana.
Spearheading the operation that led to the Arrest was the Ghana Police Intelligence Directorate which worked in collaboration with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), the National Operations Directorate (NOD), and the Formed Police Unit (FPU).
The security personnel visited the illegal mining site where they arrested the suspects.
The suspects include eight Chinese nationals and eighteen Ghanaians. The suspects were allegedly operating deep within the protected reserve.
Police said the targeted concession is linked to Akonta Mining Company, owned by Bernard Antwi Boasiako, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) who is popularly known as Chairman Wontumi.
During the arrest, police retrieved a number of tools and machinery used in the Illegal mining operation, including six pump-action guns with over 150 rounds of 3AA cartridges, six water pumping machines, three excavators, three payloaders, six machetes, two Toyota pickup trucks and one Toyota RAV4.
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