MONROVIA – News about foreigners including Ghanaians and Ivorians doing illicit mining in several counties including Gbarpolu, Rivercess, Sinoe has have drawn the attention of the Senate. The Senate Invited Mines and Energy Minister, Gesler Murray. He accused Minister Murray and his likes at the Ministry of Mines and Energy of operating a syndicate in dealing with those illegal miners. Nobody at the Ministry of Mines and Energy can tell me they don’t know what is going on in the interior of this country. Recently, the Minister of Mines and Energy gave a three-month ultimatum to the Inspectorate Division of the Ministry to clear Liberian rivers and streams of all illegal dredges and curtail the use of mercury for gold mining.
