Suspect Richard Nana Ansah has been remanded into police custody by the Takoradi Circuit Courtroom A and is to reappear earlier than the court docket on the twenty first of February 2023.
He was charged with mining gold and not using a license from authorities mandated to present such permits.
His Worship Michael Kwodjoe Ampadu, the Presiding Decide of the Takoradi Habour Circuit court docket A, nevertheless, remanded suspect Richard Nana Ansah the alleged Galamsey Kingpin who was arrested by the Asafo group of Agona Banso over the weekend into police custody after his cost was learn out to him pending additional investigations from the police.
On Saturday twenty first January 2023, there was information that the Higher Dixcove Conventional Council had arrested a Galamsey Kingpin now recognized as Richard Nana Ansah at Ahanta Banso within the Ahanta West Municipality.
Nananom, led by the Asafo Group on Monday converged on the Agona Nkwanta Police Station demanding rapid prosecution of the suspect and in addition known as for the arrest and prosecution of whoever gave the allow or authority to the galamsey operator in addition to the confiscation of the earth shifting machines and different gear used within the unlawful actions.
They informed Skyy Information’ Patrick Ennimil Arthur that they need the unlawful miners to reclaim and restore the destroyed farmlands and water our bodies, and in addition pay ample compensation to the affected farmers within the space they operated.
In the meantime, Nana Emu Agyemang VIII, chief of Kwesikrom within the Ahanta West District of the Western Area has despatched a robust warning to some Chiefs who’ve given out their lands to unlawful miners within the space to cease and name the galamsey operators to order their operations are destroying their land and river our bodies.
Nana Emu Agyemang hinted that if the federal government can’t cease these unlawful actions they are going to and that henceforth anybody (galamseyers) caught within the act of mining illegally on their land shall be handled.
Supply: Patrick Ennimil Arthur
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