Ten Chinese have been arrested in connection with illegal mining (otherwise called galamsey) at Tamso in the Tarkwa municipality in the Western Region.
They were arrested by a combined team of the police and some members of a voluntary group known as Against Environmental Degradation.
The identities of the Chinese are yet to be made known by the police.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic, the leader of the group, Mr Richard Addo, said the team arrested the illegal miners after gathering intelligence about their operations.
“After discovering their location, we made efforts to impress upon them to halt their operations but the Ghanaians among them rallied the young men around to attack us,” he said.
Mr Addo said the young men threatened to vote against the government in the 2020 elections, if they were arrested.
He said the Chinese were being transferred to the Police Headquarters in Accra for further interrogation.
Source: Daily Graphic
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this ghanaian police are made up of a bunch timid and low-key officers. why should you give this red chinese who destroying our environment a reminder! they should have been arrested together with their destructive ghanaian counterparts and sent to jail immediately!
The Government has come out with a policy for all people engaged in galamsey to halt. If you therefore find somebody still engaged in it you give them a reminder about the policy. My issue is that do we sit down and allow the Chinese to degrade our environment and then later call on government to come to our rescue when we start facing challenges in our community. There should be stiffer punishment for all involved whether Chinese or Ghanaians.
“After discovering their location, we made efforts to impress upon them to halt their operations but the Ghanaians among them rallied the young men around to attack us,” If i am discovered stealing plantain, will i be ''impressed upon to halt my operations or arrested immediately? Why have we become second class citizens on our own land??????