President Akufo-Addo has stated that Akonta Mining Company Limited is not involved in any illegal mining anywhere in Ghana currently.
Speaking at the 28th National and 16th Biennial Congress of the National Union of Ghana Catholic Diocesan Priests Association held in Koforidua on Wednesday, the President assured Ghanaians that the company is not into illegal mining.
The President was responding to calls by the Media Coalition Against Illegal Mining for the company’s directors, led by the ruling New Patriotic Party’s Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwo-Boasiako, also known as Chairman Wontumi, to be prosecuted for alleged illegalities committed by the company in the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve in the Western North Region last year.
But President Akufo-Addo while responding said Akonta Mining is not engaged in any illegality as we speak.
“Let me respond briefly to the chairperson on the issue of illegal mining. I want to assure him and all of you that Akonta Mining is not engaged in any illegal mining anywhere in Ghana as we speak.
“Further, the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has through the agency of the Forestry Commission, with the assistance of the military, made the effort to cordon off all 294 sites of forest reserves in the country and rid them of illegal mining as we speak.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
