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Rivercess County Senator Wellington Geevon Smith
Rivercess County Senator, Wellington Geevon Smith, has declared that the alarming and disturbing rate of illicit mining in the country is as a result a well-crafted syndicate at the Ministry of Land, Mines and Energy. “Nobody at that Ministry of Lands and Mines can tell me that they don’t know what is going on in the interior of this country; even the security aspect of it, in most of the mining areas you have people there who have set up their own cult, their own society, “ Senator Smith disclosed.
The Senator was speaking early this week when the Minister of Lands, Mines and Energy, Mr. Gelser Elbert Murry, appeared before the Senate plenary on a communication that illicit miners, most of them Ghanaians, have been carrying out unscientific mining in the forests of Gbarpolu County and other parts of the country.