Officials of Operation Vanguard (OV) on Tuesday stated their activities are yielding good results scoring themselves 75% of the total work. OV also revealed that it has so far arrested 1,129 illegal miners who are being prosecuted in various law courts in the country. Operation Vanguard during the week shot two illegal miners killing them all at Prestea, a mining community in the Western region. Chinese are mining in our forest under the watch and security protection of Operation Vanguard whiles we kill our own Ghanaian men, yet none of them have been arrested”. Operation Vanguard is a task force consisting of personnel from the various security agencies mostly the army and the police.

Source: GhanaWeb April 05, 2018 04:30 UTC