Illegal chainsaw operations: Sir John advocates shoot-to-kill approach to deal with menace

The Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, Mr Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, has proposed to the government to sanction a shoot-to-kill system to ward off illegal chainsaw operators from degrading the forests. He said such a decision could also help protect members of the joint military-police forestry task force from attacks, especially in the Sefwi Wiaso […]

Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast contributing to Ghana’s galamsey menace – Gov’t

Contrary to popular belief that Ghana’s illegal mining debacle is being predominantly perpetrated by Chinese nationals, it has emerged that Citizens of neighbouring Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast are also deeply involved in the practice known in local parlance as galamsey. Secretary of the inter-ministerial committee on illegal mining, Charles Bissue has revealed that some […]