Burning excavators to solve galamsey is illegal – Chief tells Nana Addo

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Chief of Bososo Manee Nana Okai Bekoe has said, it is illegal for the government to set ablaze the excavators that are seized from illegal small scale miners (galamsey) in the country.

Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul has stated that all the seized galamsey equipment including excavators will be destroyed on site by the military officers deployed to the galamsey areas.

He said no gadget will be returned to Accra.

“We are not seizing any equipment, no equipment will be returned home, they will all be destroyed on site. No excavator, nothing will come back home,” he said at a press conference in Accra on Friday April 30.

But speaking on Radio1 ‘Our Land Our Future’ program with Michael Agyapong Agyapa, Nana Bekoe said ” this is illegal.”

“The owners of these excavators arrest them and give them to court for prosecution, we have law in this country burning them is illegal,” he said.

The exercise began on River Pra in the Western and Central regions.

This, according to the Minister of Information, is in furtherance of the resolutions of the final communique issued after the two-day Stakeholder Dialogue on Small Scale Mining.

By: Michael Agyapong Agyapa | Radio1 | Ghana