The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has pledged to put his presidency ‘on the line’ in the fight against galamsey.
The President has vowed that he’s committed to solving the menace and is willing to be judged harshly on it should he fail.
The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) have found a recording device hidden within the office of Lands and Natural Resources Minister Peter Amewu.
A regular sweep of the Minister’s office by the national security body revealed the offending device, neatly hidden by whoever planted it.
Deputy Minister of Land and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu-Bio, lost his cool and lambasted the Ghanaian press during a radio interview with Fox Fm in Kumasi.
The minister lost his cool over a question relating to the collapsed galamsey mine in Nsuta, tearing into journalists for being too lazy and sitting in their studious asking questions instead of going onsite to ascertain what really happened.
The pit which collapsed and fell on some miners in the Western Region has now been utilised as their final resting place as authorities give up rescue efforts.
Five days after the pit collapse, rituals has been carried out to commit the soul of the dead, and their bodies would be left in the pit as their burial ground.
Residents of Nsuta in the Western Region of Ghana where a mine recently collapsed and killed 17 people, have revealed that a fetish priest in the area warned the miners not to use that particular pit.
Residents spoken to by the Daily Guide revealed the galamseyers had been warned but they failed to heed to the advice, leading to their eventual demise.
The Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu-Bio, has announced that government is consulting a fetish priest to help in the extraction of the miners trapped in a collapsed mine.
Speaking in an interview, Owusu-Bio said the priest who presides over the lands on which the mine sits has been summoned to come help with the attempts to rescue the trapped miners.
17 illegal miners are feared dead after a Galamsey pit from which they were mining collapsed on them Sunday evening.
The incident occurred in Nsuta in the Western region and no rescue has been made yet.
The family of the late Major Maxwell Mahama have paid a visit to the site of his murder in Denkyira-Obuasi.
A delegation made up of immediate relatives such as his parents and his brother, plus other external family members from Tumu, made the trip to the Central Regional town.
It’s looking more and likely that galamsey issues played a crucial role in the killing of Capt. Maxwell Mahama.
Even though the initial police report laying out what their preliminary investigations have revealed has no galamsey portion, Ghanaians online remain unconvinced that the captain was merely mistaken for a robber.
En Huang a.k.a. Aisha has been granted bail together with four other Chinese – Gao Jin Cheng, Lu Qi Ju, Haibin Gao and Zhang Zhipeng -illegal miners by the Accra High Court presided over by Mr Justice Charles Ekow Baiden.
The bail was granted after the court held that the state failed to prove that Aisha and her compatriots would interfere with investigations. Also the court was of the view that the state failed to prove that the accused persons were flight risk and would not avail themselves to stand trial when granted bail.
The bail for Huang was set at Ghc 500,000 with two sureties , all to be justified. The other four were each granted bail in the sum of Ghc 500,000 with one surety, to be justified. The court held that all the sureties must be Ghanaians with their residence verified.
The narrative surrounding the death of Captain Maxwell Mahama, the soldier lynched to death in Denkyira-Obuasi, is gradually shifting as people poke holes in the story of mob justice.
Some are now alleging that the mob targeted and intentionally killed the soldier, who was the leader of a group of soldiers dispatched to the area to help in the fight against galamsey.
The lynched Army Captain who died in Denkyira Monday, Capt Maxwell Mahama, was protecting illegal Chinese galamseyers in the community.
According to the District Chief Executive of Upper Denkyira West, under which Denkyira-Obuasi falls, Mahama was the commanding officer of a detachment of troops who were protecting these illegal galamseyers.
Patrick Agyei Dankwa, the galamseyer whose mining equipment was burned to the ground by angry youth, has invoked the dreaded Antoa deity on President Akufo-Addo and his government.
Dankwa, CEO of Agyei Dankwa Investment, said the destruction of his property was due to the government’s war on galamsey and thus, he has to be reimbursed or his curses would follow this government.
A Ghanaian by name Mawuli Abro has posted on Facebook that he has all the required documents and therefore has permission to continue his galamsey activities.
In his Facebook post, he adds that whoever wants can go to the court and no one can STOP galamsey.
Editor in chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Kweku Baako Jr., shocked the nation Saturday when he revealed that there were a trio of Chinese women, highly influential in the galamsey business, who were able to do whatever they wanted with impunity because they were blackmailing the big men in the country.
According to the veteran reporter, the ladies were in possession of s*x tapes either involving them having s*x with these big men or them having s*x with other Chinese girls, which had been filmed and were being used for blackmail purposes.
