Be vigilant, report any unauthorized task force - GNASSM
The Secretary of the Ashanti chapter, Mr Michael Adu Gyamfi, therefore, stands by the sector Minister's directive to call on its members to immediately report any suspected personnel who portray themselves as a task force, so that the necessary action is taken against them.
Joana Somiah 
The Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners ( GNASSM) is calling on its members to be vigilant and report activities of unauthorized task force parading in the mining sites.
This follows directives from the Minister in charge of Lands and Natural Resources that unauthorized operatives to stop their activities with immediate effect.
According to Honourable Samuel Abu Jinapor, only the 200 deployed military (Operation Halt) remains the authorized task force to stop activities of illegal small scale mining in the Red Zones.
Speaking on the issue, the Secretary to the Ashanti Chapter of GNASSM, Mr Michael Adu Gyamfi commended the sector Minister for exhibiting leadership and wished him well to succeed.
"We are going to quell their activities on all fronts. We have had enough of their extortion and intimidation", Adu Gyamfi reiterated.
A complaint had been made by some small scale miners that there are people who portray themselves as a government task force, visiting their sites to extort monies.
The report reveals that the said task force take monies from the legal small scale miners who operate in no default to the government's new directives on mining.
The Secretary of the Ashanti chapter, therefore, stands by the sector Minister's directive to call on its members to immediately report any suspected personnel who portray themselves as a task force, so that the necessary action is taken against them.
Nana Peprah Ashanti Region
