Police arrest 62 illegal miners in Ahafo region

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The Ahafo Regional Police Command has arrested 62 illegal miners at Kenyasi in the Asutifi North District of the Ahafo region.

The miners, included 60 males and two females.

Regional Police Commander, DCOP Kwaku Buodu Peprah, who led the operation told the the media, the arrest follows series of complaints from Newmont Ahafo mines about the operations of the illegal miners.

“The operation is about galamsey activities at Newmont, so following complaints from Newmont, we visited the place yesterday and we saw things by ourselves. So we decided to embark on an operation today at about 4 o’clock this morning”.

“We moved to the galamsey site and we were able to arrest about 62 of them, including two women.”

He added, the males were arrested underground while the women were arrested at the site involving in different kinds of activities” the Commander told the media.

DCOP Kwaku Buodu Peprah, therefore, revealed that, the suspects will be arraigned before court on Monday, 16th December, 2019.