Tending to a news meeting on Thursday, sixth February, Dr Amoakohene reaffirmed his obligation to handling the issue, cautioning:
If you are mining within the forest reserves and you don’t want to be on the bad side of the law, you have two weeks to vacate or to leave those spaces. Again, the other area had to do with our water bodies. So we are also giving them two weeks.
If you have any investment in these illegal activities, polluting our water bodies and destroying the environment, you have two weeks to leave. A team will be dispatched to restore normalcy in the mining sector.
His assertion follows a new order from the Ecological Security Organization (EPA), gave on 28th January, teaching the quick suspension of all unlawful mining on water bodies cross country. EPA Acting CEO, Teacher Nana Ama Browne Klutse, underlined that the mandate applies to both little and enormous scope mining exercises.
Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr. Frank Amoakohene issues 14 days final proposal to excavators to leave timberland holds and water
