{"id":766032,"date":"2019-12-16T14:42:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T14:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/16\/62-illegal-miners-arrested-at-kenyasi\/"},"modified":"2019-12-16T14:42:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T14:42:31","slug":"62-illegal-miners-arrested-at-kenyasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/16\/62-illegal-miners-arrested-at-kenyasi\/","title":{"rendered":"62 Illegal Miners Arrested At Kenyasi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SIXTY-TWO illegal miners, including<br \/>\ntwo women, have been rounded up at Kenyasi in the Asutifi North District of the<br \/>\nAhafo Region.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest, according to police, was<br \/>\nlodged by Newmont Ahafo Mines that local miners were encroaching on its mine<br \/>\nsites.<\/p>\n<p>The Regional Police Commander, DCOP<br \/>\nKwaku Buodu Peprah, said the suspects would be arraigned after initial<br \/>\ninvestigations.<\/p>\n<p>He said the operation was carried<br \/>\nout on Saturday dawn and the miners were arrested operating underground while<br \/>\nthe two women were picked up on the surface. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe operation is about galamsey<br \/>\nactivities at Newmont so following complaints from<br \/>\nNewmont administration, we visited the place yesterday and we saw things by<br \/>\nourselves hence we decided to embark on an operation today. So around 4 am we<br \/>\nmoved to the galamsay site and we were able to arrest about 62 persons,<br \/>\nincluding two women,\u201d he narrated.<\/p>\n<p>The acting Communication and External Relation Manager of Newmont, Samuel Osei, confirmed the arrest and said the company believed in responsible mining and would ensure the right things were always done.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>danielyaodayee@yahoo.com<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> <strong>FROM Daniel Y Dayee, Kenyasi<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIXTY-TWO illegal miners, including two women, have been rounded up at Kenyasi in the Asutifi North District of the Ahafo Region. The arrest, according to police, was lodged by Newmont Ahafo Mines that local miners were encroaching on its mine sites. The Regional Police Commander, DCOP Kwaku Buodu Peprah, said the suspects would be arraigned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":724036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>62 Illegal Miners Arrested At Kenyasi - 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\/12\/16\/62-illegal-miners-arrested-at-kenyasi\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"62 Illegal Miners Arrested At Kenyasi - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"SIXTY-TWO illegal miners, including two women, have been rounded up at Kenyasi in the Asutifi North District of the Ahafo Region. 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