Dormaa East Joint Operation Leads to Arrestes 13 Illegal Miners Operating in Dormaa East District.

The fight against illegal mining across the Dormaa East District of the Bono Region has once more yielded positive results in arrests of illegal miners in the District.

Several 13 suspects were been caught in the act at Dormaa Akwamu Paamu forest, Attah Obey, Supre, and Kyeremasu in a two days operation by the Assembly task force.

The members of the community alerted the District Assembly about the illegal mining activities that were taking place in this area in an attempt to cramp down the situation and apprehended the suspects.

The group aged 16 to 51 was arrested during a multi-disciplinary operation organized by the Dormaa East District Assembly to conduct a disruptive joint operation.

They teamed together with the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), Assembly members, BNI, and Dormaa East District Police command together with the District Chief Executive, Honourable Emmanuel Kofi Agyemang.

The team on their search pounced at the illegal mining sites and managed to arrest 13 suspects of them together with a cocoa farmer who's under investigation. Others too took to their heels and evaded the arrest by fleeing on foot to different directions and abandoning their mining equipment which was later destroyed by the team.

Honorable Emmanuel Kofi Agyeman, the District Chief Executive, acknowledged the concerted efforts by the joint team and said his administration at Dormaa East District Assembly will leave no stone unturned to curb illegal mining and dared to deal with anybody who will enter to District to mine illegally.

“We will work together with the security cluster to ensure that such trends no longer will exist in the district because illegal mining impacts our economy, our youths, water bodies, and our farmlands". And further condemned and warned to arrest farmers and land owners who give their lands out for such activities.

He, therefore, called on the communities to cooperate with the police and security agencies to report people who engaged in illegal mining in the area.

The police confiscated illegal mining equipment such as water pump motors, a roll of pipes, shovels motorbikes, pickaxes, dromes, and other equipment. 

The suspects were remanded into police custody and to appear before the court on 7th November 2022 to face charges of illegal mining activities.

Story by Opamago Paparichy.