Two suspected notorious illegal miners at Wamfie in the Dormaa East District of Bono Region have been arrested by the Bono Regional Security Task Force.
The suspects, Kofi Damoah, 36, well known as Allah and his accomplice Stephen Ansu were arrested at an illegal mining site during a swoop, led by Madam Justina Owusu-Banahene, the Bono Regional Minister.
Damoah is said to have haboured and sponsored several illegal miners to undertake the ‘galamsey’ activities at various sites at Nkrankwanta, Wanfie and Dormaa-Ahenkro in the Region.
As part of government’s effort to control illegal mining and logging of trees, Madam Owusu-Banahene told newsmen that the special taskforce was set to control illegal mining in the region.
Speaking to newsmen she said; “We cannot allow these miscreants in society to continue to destroy our river bodies and deplete our forest resources with their unscrupulous activities.
“This is why the government has decentralised the fight against galamsey, illegal logging, and lumbering going on in our forest reserves, and we require support from everybody to bring the situation to the barest minimum,”