Only Two Chinese Citizens In Ghana’s Prisons Despite Hundreds Arrested For illegal Mining
On May 10, 2021, three men stood in the dock in the quietude of the Koforidua Circuit Court, awaiting their fate.
Their options were limited. It was either freedom or prison.
Alhassan Abass, 28; Ibrahim Mohammed, 45; and Munkaila Djebo, a 38-year-old Nigerian, had been on trial for three years, charged with conspiracy to commit crime and mining without a license— breaches of Section 99 (2) of the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006
An anti-illegal mining (galamsey) taskforce had arrested the three at an illegal mining site at Tentenku No.8 near Kofi Pare in the Ayensuano District.
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