The government has dismissed one National Security operative and placed two others under investigation after their alleged involvement in illegal mining activities in the Ashanti Region.
The development has intensified crackdown led by the National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat (NAIMOS).
The dismissed officer, identified as Issah Yakubu, was sacked after preliminary findings linked him and two colleagues to a group of armed men who posed as National Security operatives and were arrested inside the Oda River Forest Reserve earlier this week.