A/R: Youth Raises Concerns About Gamasey Activities At Kyekyebiase
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A Concerned youth group of Kyekyebiase in the Asante Akim Central of the Ashanti Region has called on the His Royal Highness Otumfour Osei Tutu II to as a matter of urgency interven in recent galamsey activities that are currently taking place in the community in the glare of opinion leaders and government authorities.
Kyekyebiase is a farming community which feeds the entire community but the illegal mining is destroying cocoa farms and other farming activities.
The reporter, Asihene Nana Obeng Amofa estimated that, the galamsey activities are seriously destroying river bodies and forest reserves to the detriment of lossing the community’s integrity.
He mentioned communities among; kyekyebiase, Aboabo, Menna, Akodeasua, Afeneasua and Dunsin as areas that are being destroyed by the galamsey activities.
The concern youth alleged again that some land owners are also contributing significantly to the conduct of the illegal mining activities in exchange of bread and butter.
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They alleged again that, the Municipal Chief Executive has lied that, the outfit planned to conduct prospecting before giving permits to responsible mining…but his assertions were not true because the prospecting has not been done and excavators are sent to the site.
But the youth were quick to state that, when a follow up interview with the MCE, Hon. Robert Yaw Kwarkye he averred that the only mining company that approach him was Kobra Mining Company with a prospecting mining license apart from that, he has no knowledge of any illegal mining activities.
