General News of Thursday, 6 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comSamuel Abu Jinapor, the Minister of Lands Natural Resources has ordered all security persons conducting operations at various mining sites without authorisation from the government to immediately evacuate from the sites. In a statement copied to GhanaWeb, Samuel A. Jinapor said that the Ministry has learnt of the activities of these unauthorized security officers and charged them to abandon their operations with immediate effect. Jinapor warned the operatives to refrain from abusing small-scale miners whose areas of operations have not been declared ‘Red Zone’. “I refer to the ongoing security operation, dubbed “Operation Halt”, mounted by the Ghana Armed Forces to preserve the “Red Zones”, i.e our Waterbodies and Forest Reserves. “The operations of all such unauthorized Task Forces and/or parallel Security Outfits should cease and be disbanded with immediate effect,” parts of the statement read.

Source: GhanaWeb May 06, 2021 19:07 UTC