The Nationwide Anti-Unlawful Mining Operations Secretariat (NAIMOS) has dismantled a multinational galamsey syndicate working inside the communities of Ntabanu and Nyameadom in Mankuraso, Ahafo-Ano South West District of the Ashanti Area.
The operation resulted within the arrest of three Chinese language and 4 Ghanaian operators and the seizure of 4 automobiles, one excavator and one tricycle in a decisive raid on Saturday, Might 2nd.
The operation started as a routine patrol inside the Manklaso operational hall when activity drive members intercepted a brown Zonda pickup car touring at excessive velocity from its Galamsey base in Ntabanu.
The motive force, who later turned out to be a Chinese language nationwide who had been engaged in unlawful mining, tried to depart the world, apparently in response to information in regards to the presence of the duty drive, which unfold quickly amongst native operators.
A number of different close by miners have been noticed suspending operations and transferring their excavators to hidden positions in preparation for the crackdown.
Nevertheless, the swift and aggressive advance of the duty drive prevented the fleeing Chinese language from retreating, resulting in their quick arrest.
In a direct resultant engagement within the neighboring neighborhood of Nyame Adom, the duty drive intercepted a second syndicate of two Chinese language and 4 Ghanaian operators who have been additionally trying to flee the world in response to the duty drive’s presence.
Unlawful miners have been on the run as a result of they’d precipitated large devastation to huge tracts of farmland, particularly the air pollution of the Mangklang River, which was as soon as the principle water supply for residents of the Mankuraso normal space.
The syndicate was touring in a convoy of three autos: a Nissan Navara, a Nissan Orting, and a Toyota Hilux.
The operators fled shortly and deserted the excavator on the mining web site. The duty drive was in a position to reduce off the convoy’s escape route and arrest all six folks on board with none collisions or casualties.
The primary arrest made in Ntabanu was of Su Zhoxiang, a 43-year-old Chinese language nationwide. The remaining six arrests have been made in Nyamea Dom and comprised two extra Chinese language nationals, specifically Wei Lengguan, 54, and Tan Sixiang, 50, and 4 Ghanaian operators, specifically Kumi Richard, 34, Justice Nkrumah, 37, Emmanuel Nyeri, 25, and Francis Minta, 23.
A complete search of the operational space resulted in vital recoveries. All 4 autos utilized by the syndicate have been seized, with a brown Zonda pickup truck price GH₵2,750 recovered in Ntabanu, a Nissan Navara, a Nissan Orting and a Toyota Hilux recovered in Nyamea Dom. An excavator deserted at a mining web site in Nyame Adom and an Aboboya tricycle recovered from the identical web site have been additionally seized.
Quite a few expired non-citizen identification playing cards have been additionally discovered on folks believed to be unlawful Chinese language miners.
The 4 Ghanaian suspects have been then handed over to Mankraso District Police Station for investigation and attainable prosecution. The three Chinese language nationals have been transferred to NAIMOS Headquarters for additional investigation after which handed over to the Ghana Immigration Service for crucial immigration-related actions.
The seized excavator was transported to the NAIMOS Logistics Storage Space in Kumasi for safekeeping.
The Ntabanu and Nyamea Dom operations reaffirm the continued involvement of international nationals in financing, equipping, and straight finishing up galamsey actions inside the Ashanti area, regardless of authorized prohibitions on international participation in small-scale mining in Ghana.
The seizure of three pickups, a tricycle, and an excavator from a single syndicate additional reveals the layered logistics equipment supporting organized unlawful mining inside the Mankraso Hall.
The Secretariat needs to guarantee the general public that no dealer, international or home, will probably be allowed to plunder the nation’s mineral sources underneath any pretext and that operatives of the duty drive will proceed to pursue all energetic enclaves inside the Ahafo-Ano South-West area and past till illicit commerce is definitively stopped.
