Aggrieved youth of Asamang Tamfoe, in the Atiwa East District of the Eastern Region, have accused their Chief Osabarima Kwame Koh and his elders, DCE Kwabena Panin Nkansah, and the NPP Regional Chairman Kingston Okomeng Kisi of allegedly engaging in illegal mining.
According to the incensed youth, illegal mining activities ongoing in their community have polluted river bodies, degraded farmlands, depleted natural resources, and exposed residents to the danger of being trapped dead in mining pits.
Yaw Owusu, a leader of the youth expressed his concern that mining companies extract gold resources from their lands but fail to embark on developmental projects in the community.
The youth alleged that some men wearing military uniforms employed by a miner known as Kwadwo Danso, uses Honda registered number GR 2613 – 20 marauding with the soldiers to terrorize residents.
Afriyie alleged “mining operators do not have proper documents attached to their community Mining which has fuelled the youth to organize demonstrations yet the NPP regional chairman, DCE, and the constituency chairman have not shown any concern. But the regional Chairman has put two, forty feet of container structure in the site supposed to use it as their office” He alleged.
During an open forum on Sunday, November 28, 2021, the youth in the community resolved that they disapprove of any mining activity in the community hence will resist such an attempt.
The aggrieved youth marched to a mining site to destroy some of the operation tools including cement, the two forty feet of container structure, and others.
The chief, Osabarima Kwame Koh on his part, added that he doesn’t a hand in the ongoing galamsey activities in the community.
He rather blamed residents for leasing their lands to the miners.
Source: Mybytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
