Unlike previous attempts to flush out illegal miners from Ghana’s water bodies and forest reserves, the government has announced that all equipment that will be seized under a new effort to end galamsey will be destroyed on-site.
The operation which involves the deployment of 200 military personnel started last Wednesday and already nine excavators, 127 change fans, and one fuel pump which were being used for illegal mining in the river Pra
The exercise on the Pra dubbed “Operation Halt” ended yesterday and it also resulted in the arrest of two Chinese nationals at Attieku near Twifo Praso in the Central Region for illegally mining in a forest reserve.