The Forestry Commission is considering establishing a mining unit under the Forest Services Division.<\/p>\n
The unit, according\u00a0to stakeholders, will coordinate and provide information concerning mining in the regions.<\/p>\n
The Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission disclosed this at a meeting of regional forest\u00a0and district managers in Kumasi.<\/p>\n CEO of the Forestry Commission, John Allotey said the institution is spending more time, efforts and logistics in curbing illegal mining compared to illegal logging.<\/p>\n He observes strategies used to fight illegal logging will not work for illegal mining, hence the establishment of a unit to fight the menace.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to deal with people who are armed and are in a position to attack us. When the culprits are caught, as a forestry commission staff chances are that they will run away and leave the trees but illegal miners\u00a0 don\u2019t, they try to fight you.<\/p>\n What it means is that, the strategies that we use to fight illegal logging will not work so far as illegal mining is concerned. That\u2019s why we\u2019re changing the strategy. We\u2019re considering having a mining unit under the forestry services,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n Mr. Allotey advised district managers to report issues\u00a0concerning illegal mining to\u00a0regional\u00a0managers of the Commission.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s no way you\u2019re going to say you did not see activities of illegal mining, then you\u2019ll not be there. We\u2019ll take you out, it means you\u2019re not fit for purpose. District managers are suppose to see what happens in their district.<\/p>\n Once you\u2019re able to sight anybody carrying out any illegal activity you have to report to your regional manager,\u201d he advised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Forestry Commission is considering establishing a mining unit under the Forest Services Division. The unit, according\u00a0to stakeholders, will coordinate and provide information concerning mining in the regions. The Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission disclosed this at a meeting of regional forest\u00a0and district managers in Kumasi. The Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1225052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3414,2962,1271,14528,12861,3362,2758],"class_list":["post-1225050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-commission","tag-establish","tag-fight","tag-forestry","tag-galamsey","tag-mining","tag-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225050","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=1225050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Forestry](\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The-Chief-Executive-Officer-of-the-Forestry-CommissionJohn-Allotey-1024x576.png\" "\\"Forestry")