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Reiterating the government’s commitment to combating the threat, Ashanti Regional Minister Dr. Frank Amoakohene has given illegal miners a two-week deadline to leave water bodies and forest reserves.
The Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council would send a team to enforce the order and stop mining in these protected areas, the Minister said.
During his first press conference since taking office, Dr. Amoakohene described important steps to stop illicit mining and guarantee rigorous adherence to environmental laws.
“The President [John Dramani Mahama] has issued a directive that anyone in the forest reserves mining should vacate those places. We’re giving them up to two weeks if you are mining within forest reserves and if you don’t want to be on the other side of the law, you have two weeks to vacate or leave those places.
The other area has to do with water bodies, so we’re giving them two weeks, if you have any investment whatsoever and you are on water bodies polluting them and destroying our water bodies, you have two weeks to leave the space. We will send out a team to ensure normalcy and restore order within the mining sector.”
In the region, Dr. Amoakohene has also identified 618 blocked infrastructure projects and promised to work toward their completion.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
