Tag Archives: GALAMSEYERS

A group of illegal small-scale miners (galamseyers) have taken to the popular social media platform Tik Tok to mock President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s effort at combating the menace. In a video shared on the Twitter handle of broadcast journalist, Kafui Dey, a caterpillar earth-moving machine is seen busily at work …

The District Magistrate at Nkroful, Her Worship Awo French Amissah has been forced to move out of her official residence due to incessant galamsey activities taking place behind the building. A letter by the Western Regional Judicial Service notified the District Chief Executive for Ellembelle about the development. According to …

•The Takoradi Circuit Court has jailed 3 illegal small scale miners • The activities of galamsey operators have become a topical issue in recent months • The presiding judge, Abigail Animah Asare, noted that the 15 years imprisonment each was a minimum sentence Three illegal small scale miners popularly known …

Immediate-past Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, H.E George Ayisi Boateng says anyone found on illegal mining (galamsey) site should be shot dead by the Military Taskforce. According to him, the war being waged by the government against illegal mining must be fought just as happens on the battlefield where …

The alleged National Security Operatives arrested by residents of Akyem Akanteng in the West Akyem Municipality of the Eastern Region have been moved from the Asamankese District Police Command to the Eastern Regional Police Headquarters. The youth of Akyem Akanteng on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 invaded the Atewa Forest reserve …

Ghanaian associations in South Africa has described as discrimination the amended mining law of Ghana that stipulated a minimum of 15 years and maximum of 25 years for illegal miners (galamseyers) without any stiffer punishment for traditional rulers who give out lands for them. They alleged that there is no …

Three illegal miners have been gunned down by operatives of the Operation Vanguard at Ayamfuri in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region, as the soldiers continue to enforce government’s clamp down on illegal mining, MyNewsGh.com has confirmed. They were said to have been mining for gold on a piece …

The amended mining law of Ghana has stipulated a minimum of 15 years and maximum of 25 years for illegal miners (galamseyers), President Nana Akufo-Addo has said.At the second meeting of the Council of State at the Jubilee House for this year, President Akufo-Addo said: “We are talking about minimum …