Concerns Youth of Asemkrom – both residents and in the dispora in the – Aowin Municipal of the Western North Region are graverely worried about the the increase incursion of galamusey activities in River Boin.
Despite the coverage of the police at jema of the illegal miners in a video, Fourteen of them reporting to the District police Commander in the Enchi and a petrol team of eight in collaboration with local divers deactivating three chafans taken one to Jema Police Station, the miners have imported over Twenty chanfas to River Boin and minning with all contempt and impunity.
Speaking in an interview with investigative Journalist Asona Dehyie Kwateng, residents said, illegal mining activities have polluted Boin river, and destroy their cocoa farms. Residents lament on the attempt of these galamaseyers to mine in the River Ngokoin which will compare them to resort to non existing sachet water for their daily activities a situation they described as a major challenge to residents who are mostly Cocoa Farmers.
According to them, fourteen (14) galamaseyers who were arrested on site are still in town doing their illegal business and threatening to kill residents at their farms. It appears to them that they are left to their fate as the station police inspector pays no attention to their complaints.
According to aggrieved residents, galamsey activities have destroyed all the water bodies in the area.
Residents indicated that these illegal miners are currently mining in the Boin river, on the authority of Nananom and the only river left, River Ngokoin will soon be polluted and they would resist any attempt to mine in that river.
The angry residents called on the Municipal Chief Executive, the Regional Minister, Regional Police Commander, NGOs and the IGP to immediately deploy personnel to dismantle and destroy all their galamsey equipment before they carry them to a nearby community.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com
