{"id":176867,"date":"2014-04-14T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/mankranso-police-raid-mining-site\/"},"modified":"2014-04-14T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:36:00","slug":"mankranso-police-raid-mining-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/04\/14\/mankranso-police-raid-mining-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Mankranso Police Raid Mining Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"newsimage\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mgsImg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"One of the suspects with the stolen Ewe\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2014\/04\/5dc0240x_mg_oneofthesuspectswiththestolenewe.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:window.location='\/GhanaHome\/image_preview.asp?which=1&amp;menu_id=1&amp;id=NTM1NDA4';\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"mgscap\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mgscapTxt\">One of the suspects with the stolen Ewe<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n    <\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;\n  <\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"bodytext\">\n<p>One of the suspects with the stolen Ewe <br \/>Nine police personnel from the Mankranso District Police Command, led by the District Commander, Superintendent Benjamin K Gyasi last Wednesday, April 9, 2014, raided an illegal mining site to apprehend illegal miners operating at Boatengkrom near Kunso in the Ahafo-Ano South District of the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>The effort of security agents to arrest the &#8216;galamsey&#8217; operators to face the law for destroying the vegetation in the area, among others proved futile, as the suspects managed to escape after getting wind of the police presence.<\/p>\n<p>Briefing <strong><em>DAILY GUIDE<\/em><\/strong>, the District Police Commander said his men, however, succeeded in impounding equipment used by the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The items included one water pumping machine, six pick axes, 11 shovels, two pairs of wellington boots, four used mobile phones and pieces of water holes.<\/p>\n<p>He said the police launched the operation after receiving information that a group of young people were engaged in illegal mining activities in the Boatengkrom area near Kunso.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Gyasi said his outfit would continue to pursue the &#8216;galamsey&#8217; operators until they were brought to book.<\/p>\n<p>In another development, three young men, who stole a pregnant ewe and attempted to sell it in Kumasi, have been arrested by the police.<\/p>\n<p>They are Rabiu Adams, 33, Kwame Berko, 20, Santa Frank, 17.<\/p>\n<p>They stole the animal at the Dwenewoho community near Mankranso and concealed it in a sack.<\/p>\n<p>The Mankranso police boss told the paper that the suspects were arrested upon a tip-off.<\/p>\n<p>After investigations they were arraigned before the Mankranso District Magistrate Court, which sentenced Rabiu Adams to pay a fine of GH \u00e2\u201a\u00b5240 or in default serve 10 months in prison after admitting the offence.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Berko was remanded into the prison custody for two weeks while Frank was referred to the Juvenile court owing to his age.<\/p>\n<p>FROM James Quansah, Kumasi <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px;clear:both;\">\n<div style=\"padding:5px;background-color: #eee;\"><b>Comments:<\/b><br \/>This article has <b>0<\/b> comment,  leave your comment.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t    \t<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; One of the suspects with the stolen Ewe&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; One of the suspects with the stolen Ewe Nine police personnel from the Mankranso District Police Command, led by the District Commander, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}