{"id":1187746,"date":"2022-08-23T12:39:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T12:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/forestry-commission-arrests-5-for-mining-in-bosomtwe-forest-reserve\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T12:39:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T12:39:55","slug":"forestry-commission-arrests-5-for-mining-in-bosomtwe-forest-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/forestry-commission-arrests-5-for-mining-in-bosomtwe-forest-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Forestry Commission arrests 5 for mining in Bosomtwe Forest Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Forestry Commission arrests 5 for mining in Bosomtwe Forest Reserve\" title=\"Forestry Commission arrests 5 for mining in Bosomtwe Forest Reserve\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>The Forestry Commission, through its surveillance task force, has arrested five illegal miners in the Bosomtwe Forest Reserve of the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were subsequently arraigned before the Asante Bekwai Circuit Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media on the issue, a Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu Bio, said illegal miners have recently been drawn to the Bosomtwe Forest Reserve.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1329650515&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the third time I\u2019m coming to this area and I think this place is very endemic with illegal activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForest Reserves are no-go areas for illegal mining activities, they are red zones. So anybody caught doing this, will be prosecuted. We\u2019ll be praying to the Judiciary to expedite action on the cases,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>On his part, the CEO of the Forestry Commission, John Allotey, noted that these illegal activities have devastating effects on the environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil the last decade, the focus has been on illegal logging and prevention of fire outbreak and also looking at livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut now we have to deal with illegal mining, It\u2019s becoming even bigger because the impact is more pronounced than illegal logs\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forestry Commission, through its surveillance task force, has arrested five illegal miners in the Bosomtwe Forest Reserve of the Ashanti Region. The suspects were subsequently arraigned before the Asante Bekwai Circuit Court on Monday. Speaking to the media on the issue, a Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu Bio, said illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1187748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[2794,12865,3414,6194,14528,3362,13916],"class_list":["post-1187746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-arrests","tag-bosomtwe","tag-commission","tag-forest","tag-forestry","tag-mining","tag-reserve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187746","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=1187746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}