A team from the Mobile Force Unit of the Ghana Police Service in Takoradi has been deployed to Amanteng in the Wassa Mpohor West District in the Western Region to protect the pylons of the Volta River Authority (VRA) from the activities of illegal miners.
The Western Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) M.A. Alhassan, told the Daily Graphic that the team was also to ensure that the lives and properties of the people in the area were protected.
He said the patrol system was designed in collaboration with the VRA to maintain the police presence until the authority sealed all the holes dug under the pylons, following the threat posed to the pylons by the illegal miners. He did not indicate how long the operation would last.
The regional commander said it would be best if those engaged in such activities learnt to appreciate the danger they were putting the whole country into.
Meanwhile, officials of the VRA are in the process of filling the holes created by the ‘galamsey’ operators.
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