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The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) says he is not engaged in any illegal mining activities, popularly known as \u201cgalamsey.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bernard Antwi Boasiako, aka Chairman Wontumi, said his company, Akonta Mining Limited, has all the required documentation.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Wontumi TV on Monday, October 3, Chairman Wontumi said he is ready to make the document available.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am appealing to them to use the law. They should do their investigations, and we should let the law work.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a large scale company which Akonta mining is under\u2026 All the required documents I have, I will make all available[sic],\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Mr Wontumi thus rejected accusations that he is involved in galamsey.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to tell the public that I am not into galamsey,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n
The Lands Ministry and Natural Resources Ministry on Friday, September 30 directed mining firm, Akonta Mining Limited to stop operations in the Tano Nimiri Forest.<\/p>\n
The Ministry said even though Akonta Mining Limited has a mining lease to undertake mining operations in some parts of Samreboi, outside the Forest Reserve, \u201cthe company has no mineral right to undertake any mining operations in the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to the statement, the sector minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has therefore directed the Forestry Ministry to, \u201cforthwith, ensure that the company does not carry out any operation in the Forest and to take the necessary action against any person found culpable in this matter\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur records show that Akonta Mining Ltd, on August 25, 2022, applied for a Mining Lease to undertake mining operations in the said Forest Reserve. By a Ministerial Directive, all reconnaissance, prospecting and\/or exploratory activities in Forest Reserves in the country are suspended, except in exceptional circumstances.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough this directive does not affect mining in Forest Reserves, Akonta Mining Limited\u2019s application has not been determined. Accordingly, any alleged activity being undertaken by the company in the Forest Reserve is illegal\u201d, the statement further disclosed.<\/p>\n
This was after two persons sustained gunshot wounds at Samreboi in the Western Region after a section of the youth reportedly prevented personnel of Akonta Mining Limited from sending more mining equipment into the Tano Nimri Forest reserve.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) says he is not engaged in any illegal mining activities, popularly known as \u201cgalamsey.\u201d Bernard Antwi Boasiako, aka Chairman Wontumi, said his company, Akonta Mining Limited, has all the required documentation. Speaking on Wontumi TV on Monday, October 3, Chairman Wontumi said he is ready […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1215291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215290","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\/1215290","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=1215290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}