Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners Call for Immediate Release of All Seized Excavators

Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners Call for Immediate Release of All Seized Excavators.

The Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners has urged government to effect the release all excavators and other machinery seized from licensed small scale miners with immediate effect.

The group has said that, seizure, harassment, intimidation and alleged extortions faced by small scale miners at the hands of some elements within the Law Enforcement Agencies “especially the police and politically exposed persons who run their own parallel Taskforce for their self-gains” equate injustice.

Addressing the media in Kumasi on Wednesday, they appeared highly peeved after recalling countless hardworking small-scale miners being targeted and terrorized by those meant to protect them.

“Politically exposed persons manipulate security agencies for profit and power, undermining formal small-scale mining initiatives”, Abdul Razak Alhassan, National Public Relations Officer for the association told newsmen during the briefing.

He expressed that, operations of members of the association are carried out in total compliance with ethical mining practices.

“Never in our history have we defended illegality. We do not condone irresponsible mining that cause havoc to our community”.

Story filed by Barbara Koranteng.