{"id":1241585,"date":"2022-11-02T10:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T10:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/02\/e-r-aprahwem-galamseyers-dismiss-the-governments-appeal-to-stop-unlawful-mining\/"},"modified":"2022-11-02T10:30:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T10:30:27","slug":"e-r-aprahwem-galamseyers-dismiss-the-governments-appeal-to-stop-unlawful-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/02\/e-r-aprahwem-galamseyers-dismiss-the-governments-appeal-to-stop-unlawful-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"E\/R: Aprahwem &#8216;galamseyers&#8217; dismiss the government&#8217;s appeal to stop unlawful mining."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Illicit miners in Aprahwem, Kwahu Abetifi District, Eastern Region, have dismissed the government&#8217;s demand to stop illegal mining, often known as &#8216;galamsey.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The youngsters engaging in the crime claim that, although being aware of the terrible consequences of galamsey on Ghana&#8217;s rivers and forests, they are unable to cease the act due to the money they receive from the activity.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the kids who spoke with the journalist claimed they are aware of the government&#8217;s efforts to combat the problem, but they have little option because they always acquire gold whenever they go on site.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know the president wants us to quit fighting, but we can&#8217;t since we constantly earn gold.&#8221; &#8220;We see money on a daily basis,&#8221; they explained.<\/p>\n<p>Galamsey is still going on in the Kwahu enclave in Akwasiho, Asuoyaa, Kofi Dede, Obomeng Besease, and Aprahwem.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/841a06b9faa34c72b5ab57bc72bc3b7a\"\/>The Kwahu East Security Council went on a swoop Thursday and the illegal miners left the jungles.<\/p>\n<p>13 excavators were discovered in the forest during the swoop but could not be confiscated since towing machinery were not available to convey the heavy duty equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Kwahu Akwaboah chief who claimed possession of the location has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I went to the place, one guy with an extremely sharp cutlass informed me, &#8216;I would&#8217;ve sliced you into pieces if I had seen you with a covert camera or recorder,'&#8221; she said on Maakye on Wednesday, November 2, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: SayProsper01 (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAprahwem<br \/>\nEastern Region<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nKwahu Abetifi<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illicit miners in Aprahwem, Kwahu Abetifi District, Eastern Region, have dismissed the government&#8217;s demand to stop illegal mining, often known as &#8216;galamsey.&#8217; The youngsters engaging in the crime claim that, although being aware of the terrible consequences of galamsey on Ghana&#8217;s rivers and forests, they are unable to cease the act due to the money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1241586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1101,28389,11600,20912,2001,3362,534,13081],"class_list":{"0":"post-1241585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-appeal","9":"tag-aprahwem","10":"tag-dismiss","11":"tag-galamseyers","12":"tag-governments","13":"tag-mining","14":"tag-stop","15":"tag-unlawful"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241585","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=1241585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}