Economy
Deaths ”expected” in Galamsey fight – Kwame Jantoa
Recalcitrant illegal miners are likely to be shot dead by the anti-illegal mining taskforce, Operation Vanguard, private legal practitioner, Kwame Jantoa foresees.
“We are determined to stop galamsey, restore our water bodies and ensure this menace is scratched”, he vowed.
“Although that soft warning was given we could see that there were still people doing galamsey in the night. …still people were flouting directives given”, the Convention People’s Part (CPP) member pointed out.
“Now the Army and the police taskforce have been put in place because it doesn’t look like the galamseyers were listening….there are still pockets of people doing what they were doing”.
“We cannot sit down for this to go on”, Lawyer Kwame Jantoa indicated on an Accra based radio station.
“For me, it is a shame that people have to die but it is to be expected. …the taskforce will not stand there when stones and bottles and sometimes guns are being shot at them”.
“No matter how they try to give warning shots to warn the people, it is likely that we are going to have this kind of situation”, he stated.
An illegal miner, Kwame Agyemang was shot dead at Wawase in Obuasi in the Ashanti Region for engaging in illegal mining by the police/military patrol team when the miners attempted to exchange gun fire with the taskforce.
