{"id":778905,"date":"2020-01-08T23:26:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T23:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/08\/ban-on-lumbering-of-rosewood-still-in-force-minister\/"},"modified":"2020-01-08T23:26:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T23:26:22","slug":"ban-on-lumbering-of-rosewood-still-in-force-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/08\/ban-on-lumbering-of-rosewood-still-in-force-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban on lumbering of rosewood still in force &#8211; Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">By<br \/>\nDennis Peprah, GNA<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Sunyani, Jan. 07,<br \/>\nGNA \u2013 The national ban on the lumbering of rosewood is still in force, Mr Kwaku<br \/>\nAsomah-Cheremeh, the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources has warned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">He explained the ban<br \/>\nis in line with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Specifies<br \/>\n(CITES). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">According to the<br \/>\nMinister, saying until the ban was lifted, the Ministry would intensify<br \/>\nenforcement, clamp down and prosecute culprits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Interacting with<br \/>\nJournalists in Sunyani, Mr Asomah-Cheremeh expressed regret over the rapid<br \/>\ndepletion of the nation\u2019s forest and therefore appealed to Ghanaians to be on<br \/>\nthe watch and help in the prevention of illegal chainsaw operation and arrest<br \/>\nof perpetrators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The sector minister<br \/>\nnarrowly escaped death on Wednesday, January 2, 2020 when a Kia Truck with<br \/>\nregistration number AS 4955E, loaded with lumber nearly rammed his vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Mr Asomah-Cheremeh<br \/>\nhowever escaped unhurt, while the driver of the truck who was conveying the<br \/>\nlumber from Dormaa-Ahenkro in the Bono Region to Yeji in the Bono East region<br \/>\nwas arrested and granted Police inquiry bail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The truck has since<br \/>\nbeen impounded by the Forestry Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Narrating the<br \/>\nincident to newsmen, Mr Asomah-Cheremeh said he was returning from a trip and<br \/>\nchanced on the truck at the traffic light, near the Sunyani Municipal Hospital<br \/>\naround 2100 hours and signaled the driver of the truck to stop, but he refused<br \/>\nto do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">\u201cI overtook the<br \/>\ntruck driver from the other lane and tried to stop him, but he ignored the<br \/>\nsignal, smashed my vehicle and created incision to the bumper, destroying the<br \/>\nbooth of my vehicle at the Nkwabeng Goil filling station\u201d, he explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Mr Asomah-Cheremeh<br \/>\nsaid the driver of the truck was later arrested by some good citizens who<br \/>\nchased the truck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">\u201cWhen the driver was<br \/>\narrested, he brought the documents covering the lumber and it was realised that<br \/>\nthe amount paid for VAT was higher than the actual cost of the lumber. The<br \/>\ndocument also shows the truck was expected to carry not more than 300 pieces of<br \/>\nlumber instead of the more than 1000 pieces it was conveying and this raised my<br \/>\nsuspicion\u201d, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Mr Asomah-Cheremeh<br \/>\nrefuted allegations made against him and being circulated in the social media<br \/>\nthat he demanded money from the truck driver and caused his detention in Police<br \/>\ncustody saying \u201csuch allegations are figments of the imaginations of my<br \/>\naccusers\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The Minister said he<br \/>\nhad caused the arrest and impounded several trucks conveying rosewood, and<br \/>\nassured the commitment of his Ministry to stem uncontrolled illegal lumbering<br \/>\nand chainsaw operation in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">GNA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dennis Peprah, GNA Sunyani, Jan. 07, GNA \u2013 The national ban on the lumbering of rosewood is still in force, Mr Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources has warned. He explained the ban is in line with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Specifies (CITES). According to the Minister, saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":778906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ban on lumbering of rosewood still in force - Minister - 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\/01\/08\/ban-on-lumbering-of-rosewood-still-in-force-minister\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ban on lumbering of rosewood still in force - Minister - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Dennis Peprah, GNA Sunyani, Jan. 07, GNA \u2013 The national ban on the lumbering of rosewood is still in force, Mr Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources has warned. 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