{"id":1098439,"date":"2022-05-25T06:21:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T06:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/25\/deputy-minister-for-lands-saves-tano-river-in-part-2-of-operation-halt\/"},"modified":"2022-05-25T06:21:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T06:21:11","slug":"deputy-minister-for-lands-saves-tano-river-in-part-2-of-operation-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/25\/deputy-minister-for-lands-saves-tano-river-in-part-2-of-operation-halt\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Minister For Lands \u201cSaves\u201d Tano River In Part 2 Of \u201cOperation Halt\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/96ae8a4657654201a991615cdf65bcbb\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A deputy minister for Lands and Natural Resources, George Mireku Duker has, through phase two of the \u201cOperation Halt\u201d, saved the Tano river from the hands of illegal miners in the Western Region of Ghana, the Ministry has said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry, Mireku Duker together with a force undertaking the drive against illegal mining, pounced on a group of persons illegally mining at various \u201cgalamsey\u201d sites.<\/p>\n<p>The minister is said to be spearheading a three-day operation under the \u201cOperation Halt II\u201d in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first day of the operations saw the team under the command of Brigadier General Amoah Ayisi conduct a successful swoop on some galamsey sites. The Operation Halt II team arrested some illegal miners and decommissioned galamsey equipment at Wassa Dunkwa through to Asankragua in the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAddressing the Media at Wassa Dunkwa, Hon. Duker commended the military for the swift action and condemned the negative activities of the illegal miners. He further indicated that government will continue to fight against the menace which has become a burden on state coffers\u201d, the Ministry relayed.<\/p>\n<p>The Government through the Lands and Natural Resources Ministry has launched a \u201crelentless\u201d war against illegal mining activities to sanitise the mining sector particularly small-scale mining operations and to also protect the country\u2019s Lands, forests and water bodies.<\/p>\n<p>CREDIT:S.A.Kingsley.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: generalconcept1 (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nGeorge Mireku Duker<br \/>\nOperation Halt<br \/>\nOperation Halt II<br \/>\nTano<br \/>\nWassa Dunkwa<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deputy minister for Lands and Natural Resources, George Mireku Duker has, through phase two of the \u201cOperation Halt\u201d, saved the Tano river from the hands of illegal miners in the Western Region of Ghana, the Ministry has said. According to the Ministry, Mireku Duker together with a force undertaking the drive against illegal mining, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1098440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[651,7522,703,1223,4124,385,376,1280,14413],"class_list":["post-1098439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-deputy","tag-halt","tag-lands","tag-minister","tag-operation","tag-part","tag-river","tag-saves","tag-tano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}