Four armed miners were taken into custody during a raid by the Forestry Commission’s Rapid Response team on an illegal mining camp, also known as a galamsey camp, in the Subri Forest Reserve near Benso in the Western Region.
In a forest designated as a Globally Significant Biodiversity Area, the suspects—all Ghanaians—were discovered to be mining.
Three excavators were set on fire, 77 rounds of ammo, and five pump action weapons were taken by the squad during the operation.
The Takoradi police have received additional things discovered at the scene for their ongoing investigation.
The suspects—Innussah Yussif, Issah Seidu, Shadrack Yowson, and Emmanuel Adawusu—are thought to have had help from powerful people for their illicit mining operations, which severely damaged the forest in an effort to find gold.
The raid, which was a component of a coordinated quick response operation in the Takoradi Forest District, occurs at a time when illicit mining operations are on the rise and have seriously damaged large areas of Ghana’s forest reserves.
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