A team of eleven (11) police personnel from
RHQ koforidua under the command of ASP Ofori Boateng, eleven (11) military
personnel from Michel Camp and Fifteen (15) local policemen all under the command of Anyinam District Police
commander Supol. Mr. J. Darko embarked on an operation within the district from
29/05/2013 to 15/06/2013 to clamp down on illegal miners.
Illegal
mining in the Atiwa District is in two kinds. (1) The one on the water bodies,
rivers, etc. popularly known as “CHANFAN” and (2) Those mining with excavators
on land without the requisite documents. The team was to look out for
foreigners, people mining close to roads, railway lines, rivers, those pulling
rivers and water bodies and people who have given contracts to sub contractors
illegally.
The
operation took the team to Ankaase, Mampong, Adasawase, Anyinam, Accra village,
Muoso, Akrofufu, Akwabuoso, Abomosu, Sankubenase, Amonom and Kukubi. All these
towns are along the Birim River in Atiwa.
In
all the team was able to arrest twenty- nine (29) suspects. Fourteen out of the
number were Chinese with the remaining with the remaining being Ghanaians. The
fourteen Chinese suspects and ten Ghanaians were taken to RHQ, Koforidua for
further investigations. The remaining five Ghanaians suspects were put before
the circuit court, Mpraeso and are being tried.
Two
hundred and twenty-six (226) “CHAFAN” machines were demobilized. Six EXCAVATORS,
one (1) PAIL LOADER, one (1) BULL DOZER, a Ford Ranger5 with registration
number GS 235-11 and two (2) CAT excavator Control boards were seized and kept
at the Anyinam Police Station as exhibit
DANIEL
A POKU
DISTRICT INFORMATION OFFICER)
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