{"id":1216756,"date":"2022-10-05T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/05\/were-not-involved-in-galamsey-akonta-mining\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T16:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:49:16","slug":"were-not-involved-in-galamsey-akonta-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/05\/were-not-involved-in-galamsey-akonta-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re not involved in galamsey &#8211; Akonta Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"459\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Illegal-Mining-Ghana\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1664988553_442_Illegal-Mining-Ghana-696x459.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"459\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1664988553_442_Illegal-Mining-Ghana-696x459.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Illegal-Mining-Ghana\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">File<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Akonta Mining Company has denied claims that it is involved in illegal small scale mining business (Galamseny).<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the company was stopped from mining in the Tano Nimiri forest reserve by the Minister for Lands and Natural Resource, Samuel Jinapor on Friday, 30 September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>It said even though Akonta Mining Limited has a mining lease to undertake mining operations in some parts of Samreboi, \u201cthe company has no mineral right to undertake any mining operations in the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Lands-1-300x218.png\" data- class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-266056 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-266056\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Lands-1-300x218.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\"  \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Mr Jinapor asked the Forestry Commission 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<p>But owner of the company who is also the Ashanti Region Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP0 Chairman Wontumi said: \u201cI am appealing to them to use the law\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Lands-2-300x224.png\" data- class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-266057 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-266057\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Lands-2-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\"  \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should do their investigations, and we should let the law work\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In his response to claims that he is involved in illegal mining, he said: \u201cI want to tell the public that I am not into galamsey\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Akonta-statement-300x295.png\" data- class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-266058 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-266058\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Akonta-statement-300x295.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\"  \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a large-scale company which Akonta mining is under\u2026 All the required documents, I have; I will make all available\u201d, he stressed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File Akonta Mining Company has denied claims that it is involved in illegal small scale mining business (Galamseny). This comes after the company was stopped from mining in the Tano Nimiri forest reserve by the Minister for Lands and Natural Resource, Samuel Jinapor on Friday, 30 September 2020. It said even though Akonta Mining Limited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1216119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[26697,12861,2248,3362],"class_list":["post-1216756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-akonta","tag-galamsey","tag-involved","tag-mining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216756","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=1216756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}