{"id":608981,"date":"2019-04-20T04:05:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T04:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday, 20 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Pulse.com.gh<\/p>\n2019-04-20\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/77345830"},"modified":"2019-04-20T04:05:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T04:05:20","slug":"ghanaians-must-be-blamed-for-galamsey-chinese-ambassador-insists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/20\/ghanaians-must-be-blamed-for-galamsey-chinese-ambassador-insists\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaians must be blamed for galamsey &#8211; Chinese ambassador insists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday, 20 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Pulse.com.gh<\/p>\n<p>2019-04-20<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/77345830.295.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Ambassador Ghana\" title=\"Chinese Ambassador Ghana\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Chinese ambassador to Ghana, Mr Shi Ting Wang<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The Chinese ambassador to Ghana, Mr Shi Ting Wang, insists Ghanaians must be blamed for the rise in illegal mining (galamsey) activities in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, no Chinese knows the location to any of Ghana&#8217;s mining communities or reserve, saying it is Ghanaians who introduce them to the trade.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador&#8217;s comments comes following growing concerns about the activities of Chinese miners in Ghana&#8217;s mining communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know where your gold is. We don\u2019t issue visas too for the Chinese people coming to Ghana. Ghanaians issue the visas,&#8221; Wang said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ghanaians aid the Chinese to where they can find your gold. Why are Chinese not doing illegal mining in South Africa where there is also a lot of gold&#8230;because they cannot do that there and the locals don\u2019t support such illegalities,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Chinese government would not tolerate any of its nationals engaged in illegalities in another country.<\/p>\n<p>He also called for tightening of the nation\u2019s border security to help reduce Chinese nationals coming into the country illegally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Saturday, 20 April 2019 Source: Pulse.com.gh 2019-04-20 Chinese ambassador to Ghana, Mr Shi Ting Wang The Chinese ambassador to Ghana, Mr Shi Ting Wang, insists Ghanaians must be blamed for the rise in illegal mining (galamsey) activities in Ghana. According to him, no Chinese knows the location to any of Ghana&#8217;s mining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":608982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghanaians must be blamed for galamsey - Chinese ambassador insists - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/20\/ghanaians-must-be-blamed-for-galamsey-chinese-ambassador-insists\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ghanaians must be blamed for galamsey - Chinese ambassador insists - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Saturday, 20 April 2019 Source: Pulse.com.gh 2019-04-20 Chinese ambassador to Ghana, Mr Shi Ting Wang The Chinese ambassador to Ghana, Mr Shi Ting Wang, insists Ghanaians must be blamed for the rise in illegal mining (galamsey) activities in Ghana. 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