{"id":1208457,"date":"2022-09-21T12:52:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/21\/two-persons-arrested-for-illegal-mining-offences-granted-bail\/"},"modified":"2022-09-21T12:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:52:39","slug":"two-persons-arrested-for-illegal-mining-offences-granted-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/21\/two-persons-arrested-for-illegal-mining-offences-granted-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Two persons arrested for illegal mining offences granted bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The High Court on Tuesday granted bail to two Ghanaians in a criminal prosecution for conspiring to mine without a license and contracting non-Ghanaians to undertake mining operations and services without a license.<\/p>\n<p>Wilberforce Essien and Rev. Walace Dela-Brown pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n<p>They are accused of engaging five Chinese nationals at Teleku-Bokazo at Nkroful in the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p>The five Chinese nationals were arrested at Esiama and an excavator and other mining equipment were seized from them.<\/p>\n<p>The two Ghanaians were subsequently arrested for their alleged involvement in the galamsey operations.<\/p>\n<p>Her Ladyship, Mary Maame Ekue Nsenkyire admitted the two to a bail of GH\u00a22 million with 2 sureties to be justified with landed properties.<\/p>\n<p>The case has subsequently been adjourned to October 2, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"oK18ku04MHA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Galamsey fight: Police arrests Chief of Sefwei Ellubo and his brother\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oK18ku04MHA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court on Tuesday granted bail to two Ghanaians in a criminal prosecution for conspiring to mine without a license and contracting non-Ghanaians to undertake mining operations and services without a license. Wilberforce Essien and Rev. Walace Dela-Brown pleaded not guilty to the charges. They are accused of engaging five Chinese nationals at Teleku-Bokazo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1084807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208457","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=1208457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}