General News of Thursday, 30 January 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comSeized excavators are being used for galamsey – Concerned Small Scale MinersOver 500 excavators were seized during the crusade against illegal miningConcerned Small Scale Miners Union of Ghana says their excavators which were seized during the banning of small-scale mining are being used for illegal mining in some parts of the country. According to the miners, the 500 excavators which were seized between 2017 and 2018 are not missing as alleged by the Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining, Professor Frimpong Boateng. The Media Coalition against Illegal Mining and Occupy Ghana have demanded for an explanation on the supposed disappearance of the excavators from government. This was after Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining, Professor Frimpong Boateng revealed last week, that most of the seized excavators are missing. He said, “though the excavators were seized and taken to the district assemblies, the heavy-duty machines disappeared later from the premises of the assemblies”.

Source: GhanaWeb January 30, 2020 14:37 UTC