Government revokes Wontumi's Akonta Mining license over illegalities

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  • Sam 7 months ago

    Massa, mongyae gyimii no! How can you interview residents and would not ask for the management of Akonta Mining to give their version of the said allegation. This is a political vendetta and for sure you people gonna regret o ...
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  • I piss on sick dog prophet mohammed 7 months ago

    If you poison islamic children you will go straight to heaven. Burn all mosques. Qur'an is toilet paper

  • Kweku Tsin 7 months ago

    @Sam... yes, like a thief will admit to his own crimes.

  • Mawutor 7 months ago

    Now they are only going after NPP miners.
    The truth is that Akonta has refused to sell their Gold to Goldbod thats
    is the main reason of revoking their mining license

  • Truth 7 months ago

    Lol.... refused? Goldbod hasn't started but when it does no one can refuse. It is LAW. You don't have a choice but to sell to the state. Use your empty head to learn small. Why display your dumbness in public like this

  • Kofi 7 months ago

    I hope you haven't forgotten the story of Mr indooms Banks. They also went down like this. Do nothing is new here.

  • Atsu, Ho 7 months ago

    O hope that GH alone will be the winner and beneficiary and not the politicians doing their usual charades

  • Jesus 7 months ago

    a very stupid mawutor

  • Joko 7 months ago

    @mawutor your own stupidity is out if this world

  • Gh 7 months ago

    @ Mawutor
    You think these kind stories make a difference . You’re just been fooled to the core. Always think party politics. Fool

  • Yaw Amankwaah 7 months ago

    Mawutor,
    Be sensible and use your head. Akonta Mining can't take Gold out of this country and sell outside. By law, it's only Goldbod (State) who are mandated to sell our Gold abroad, get the dollar and use it to shore up o ...
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  • Alhassan 7 months ago

    I curse the day you were born and the day you will die

  • Peter 7 months ago

    Sam you ask very stupid questions. Do police go to interview perpetrators of crime when they are trying catch them or break up intended criminal actions. This Akonta Mining is just destroying the forest. Joyfm has documentari ...
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  • STOP FOOLING 7 months ago

    OFUI GO INTERVIEW AKONTA MINING

  • Ebenezer Ayim 7 months ago

    Some of the madness in Ghana is this. You have already concluded that it is politically motivated and that's why these politicians will continue to toil with your lives because your madness never seizes. Wait for the person o ...
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  • Kwaku Tee 7 months ago

    The NDC don't regard Ghanaians they think everybody is a FOOL. Why would they allow Wontumi to walk around if they have all these evidence against him.The first thing for them to do is to arrest him instead of press conferenc ...
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  • Alex 7 months ago

    I am sure wontumi will be arrested very soon. Watch

  • Ghana man 7 months ago

    Why very soon not now . All his are political game , dog never eat dog. Is the poor and the china will face the law . It was the owner of the company they need to arrest first for letting his company break the law . He eve ...
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  • Ababio 7 months ago

    Which version, of what? Stop the chaskele you want to play here.

  • Kofi Sromani 7 months ago

    You are one of the stupid nation wreckers who have no brains to reason properly. In the first place, Akonta has no permit to enter and mine in the forest, so what is your point? Akonta is a criminal company operated by a gang ...
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  • Mr Bob Jnr 7 months ago

    Only imbeciles will destroy their own land

  • Bio 7 months ago

    Gyae gyimi no

  • moonstone 7 months ago

    whether they question Akonta management or not the evidence are they clearly for prosecution. Wontumi should be arrested by now before he runaway. Such an impunity

  • Jesus 7 months ago

    Ghana is working again

  • Nonsense 7 months ago

    Kwasia man like you which is political destroying the forest and government trying to stop it you are over speaking nonsense

  • Okyere 7 months ago

    If Ghana is religiously peaceful due to RME in schools, then removal of Agricultural Science from basic school since 2007 is largely to blame for today’s polluted rivers and degraded lands.

  • Osaberima manesah 7 months ago

    We can all see you are one of the beneficiaries of wuntumi the criminal's I'll gotten wealth, we will come for you too. Thinking about your self enrichment alone to the detriment of others is a highly rated crime so don't wor ...
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  • Akua Nsiah 7 months ago

    He says he's the richest man in Ghana. The loud-mouthed idiot who pollutes wantonly. He's going to be the next one to get stroke

  • Born again 7 months ago

    Akua i dont think you are a real woman if so then you are a bitch born in the mud, is this the first time the ndc have shamefully attacked this buisness man, if power changes hand rest assured that ndc suffer and fools like ...
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  • Peter 7 months ago

    The NPP cannot do foklo. It is environmental crimes that Nana just looked on was why your party was kicked out. Do you think every Ghanaian is genetically stupid like you ?

  • Nana 7 months ago

    @ Akua Nsiah
    Akua Nsiah is an Idiotic Foolish Ayigbe Male.A man who is so Coward and Shy of his Ayigbe name. Are they targeting him bcoz he claimed he is the richest Ghanaian or bcoz he's committed a crime?Why don't they in ...
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  • . 7 months ago

    Well done Minister.
    Share the registration number of the vehicles impounded. And the excavators.
    How did the Chinese obtain Ghanaian visa? Who issued the visas in China or Lome?
    Environmental degradation should not be enc ...
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  • Nii 7 months ago

    We call the whole Story Mahama Kumawood Part One.The script writer of the story is confused. Too many gaps in the story. John Dramani Mahama is a JOKE of a President he can't fight this menace.

  • ObuasiMan 7 months ago

    Fantastic job done by the Government, the Minister for Lands and the security forces involved. This destruction must stop and the criminal gangs must be jailed.

  • Sethoo 7 months ago

    The AFRC led by Criminal late JJ Rawlings killed and imprisoned innocent Ghanaians for framed up charges.Years later it has been proven that JJ Rawlings was a Thief who led those gangsters to engage in those barbaric acts.

  • Shamu 7 months ago

    It took too long to revoke his license. This are the boys who supposed to be in jail some 6-7 years ago. Be it rich or what so ever he called himself, is his own problems. Most important to Ghanaians is that, the environment ...
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  • TRUTH 7 months ago

    WONTUMI SAID GHANA IS BETTER THAN LONDON. HE CAN CONTINUE TO ENJOY THE EASY MONEY IN GHANA. NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT.

  • Yaw 7 months ago

    You want to use him as a scapegoat but it will not work hypocrite what about the ndc chairman of the Western Region who blocked the military from accessing his mining site

  • The SILLY Children Afenyo Markins and Annor Dompreh 7 months ago

    Ah, Boss, Wontumi is worse than a scapegoat. He should be fortunate to be used as scapegoat and not scapecow.

  • Jkmee 7 months ago

    Reset is on

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  • Boune 7 months ago

    Bogus reasons!

  • Yaw 7 months ago

    MY WORRY IS THAT, IS THE NDC GOING TO STAY IN POWER FOREVER? IF NO, THEN DEFINITELY THE MINISTER AND ALL THE NDC APPOINTEES ARE NOT SAFE

  • Bob the Marley 7 months ago

    @Yaw. For NPP to come to power again it will be very difficult. Either this generation of Npp will become very old to come to power or the NPP party will divide. Because NDC will stay very long. Do you know that Greater Accr ...
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  • Kwadwo 7 months ago

    Don't rest there. Kindly arrest him and send him to court to answer for his crome. Under Akufo Addo, he thought his end will never come. Let the law deal with him. Foolish guy

  • Stefano 7 months ago

    The news we want to hear is that the stupid rat himself has been arrested and all the assets of his company frozen.

  • John,Tema 7 months ago

    That is thru the law court which every Ghanaian will support.Nobody is prepared to listen to this populist acts.Ibrahim Mahama for 4yrs did not pay for duties on vehicles he imported. We were expecting NPP to imprison him but ...
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  • Kojo 7 months ago

    Who care if NDC loses power. All we care is those polluting the water bodies needs to be stopped immediately. You sit there and do politics. If NDC do same npp should grab them and throw them in jail.

  • Nana yaw 7 months ago

    The police commander at Manso Adubia John Yeboah and one police officer called Agyei is taking as much as Fifty thousand Ghana cedis from illegal miners for them to work.

    The Ghana police service should go to Manso Adubia ...
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  • Kofi Fofie 7 months ago

    Should we say this is from the horse's own mouth, Nana Yaw?

  • Lotto forecaster!!! 7 months ago

    Hahaha, the biggest problem is, most of u don’t understand the Galamsey concept!! Its not one person or NDC or NPP ooo, is a main source of income for people living around that community and the most northerners who use to ...
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  • Sule 7 months ago

    What a are you saying. So because armed robbery is a livelihood for some criminals it should be allowed to fester. Crime is crime, ok. If I earned a living by killing idiots like you and sell your empty brain , I should be ...
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  • Isaac 7 months ago

    @Sule hahahaha adjeeeeeee can't stop laughing

  • Yaw Moto 7 months ago

    Wontumi started bringing the Chinese to Ghana with Ghana-China Chamber of Commerce. He was operating that office at Tema

  • Asonaba asiedu 7 months ago

    Long overdue. Akuffo addo knew what was going on but turned a blind eye because wontumi was an npp financier. How can you guys be so wicked to the nation and it's people? These people go to church to behave as if they believe ...
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  • KofSam 7 months ago

    This operation shouldn’t be limited to Akonta mines . The lands commission must go after all the NDC and NPP party members involved in Galamsey so that it does look like the government is targeting only the NPP members .

  • Ross 7 months ago

    Now he must go to Nsawam. Or injected so he can become the mumu that he always wanted to be. ANAMU!!

  • Cat 7 months ago

    Why ndc is delaying the arrest of wontumi.he should have been arrested b4 revoking his licence. Pls kindly arrest all those sponsoring the galamsy activities on our forest reserves.crying at a press conference is not the ...
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  • Asem 7 months ago

    Massa haven’t you cried before.Please allow him.

  • Ababio 7 months ago

    Perfect! Work in progress. The reseting is massive.

  • Put him behind bars!! 7 months ago

    Put him behind bars!! Super greedy person!!!

  • Tail light 7 months ago

    Government can never revoke wontumi Akonta mining license over illegalities so what is illegalities that caused Wontumi Akonta mining to lose license?

  • Shit hole 7 months ago

    It's long overdue

  • AA 7 months ago

    check out Wontume Contract very well, it exploration and not mining.

  • Kofi 7 months ago

    Jail the rat.

  • Sam 7 months ago

    Long over due

  • Agbenyo 7 months ago

    Simple alll NDC guys doing legally mining shd stop and leave site before. Even Jan 2028

  • Owan Yaw aka Teteman Ubi 7 months ago

    This apparent vendetta will not survive. Looks like the Mahama administration is now spending precious time in going after perceived political opponents. This is not the kind of change Ghanaians are asking for. And Ghanaians ...
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  • the Villager 7 months ago

    Nonsense, who tells Wontumiii is Ashanti even NDC hates asantis?

  • Owan Yaw aka Teteman Ubi 7 months ago

    Your immature post does not take away the open perception. Maybe you were not well groomed by your parents.

  • Opoku Mensah 7 months ago

    Not only should his license be revoked, but he should also be arrested and sent to jail.

  • PK 7 months ago

    It only two this things that will make a man fall like coconut., money and ladies.
    NDC started looking for you Wontumi , before the 2024 elections. Why do you even have to operate.
    We now have the Saints and Angels. Still ...
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  • Hutus 7 months ago

    He is not smart.

  • Achakanapaya 7 months ago

    Very good job done. The NPP are full of shameless dishonest Hypocrites.
    They are in the forest doing the Galamsay activities but will come out to call the bloof of the NDC not fighting Galamsay.

  • Abby 7 months ago

    Mr minister, akonta mines can not be a scapegoat. Are they the only company supposedly destroying river tano?
    Seems like the ndc is still stuck in Populist approaches to excite a party base rather than really solving a pro ...
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  • HDondon 7 months ago

    Nobody needs his side of akonta version you can not see our water bodies are destroyed please arrest them all the illegal miners kingpins

  • Albert 7 months ago

    Shame on NDC. JOON MAMMA HAS COME TO CRIPPLE BUSINESSES

  • Jay Swiss 7 months ago

    Thank you Mr Buah. You are an angel of God! I hope your words will be remembered. Your are bold, direct and ready to stop the Ping pong games in our politics. Mr Minister, please multiple 30 excavators by us$ 100,000. Each of ...
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  • Hmmm… 7 months ago

    You forgot that it is the little tax payers money that will be used to feed and take care of them.

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  • Kofi Fofie 7 months ago

    Go with your family members, ofui.

  • Isaac 7 months ago

    @ Kofi Fofie hahahaha adjeeeeeee ofui paaa

  • Gabby 7 months ago

    Instead of prosecuting the wontumi guy, you are just revoking his license, what will that do to him. Wontumi has to go to jail....you guys should stop the foolishness. I susoecr that he has bride the officials in ndc to sav ...
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  • Gabby 7 months ago

    Instead of prosecuting the wontumi guy, you are just revoking his license, what will that do to him. Wontumi has to go to jail....you guys should stop the foolishness. I suspect that he has bride the officials in ndc to sav ...
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  • iPad 7 months ago

    Until proven guilty by a law of competent jurisdiction he can’t just be thrown to jail.

  • Slim 7 months ago

    Wontumi is petty criminal in NPP colours just like Akufo Addo.
    J.H. Mensah, Da Roucha are turning in their graves

  • Agbeli Kumordzi 7 months ago

    Akans are enemy to our environment here in Ghana

  • Kofi Fofie 7 months ago

    Where does this come from?

  • Mark Fish 7 months ago

    So is it only Akonta mining that has been caught so far that a whole press conference has to be held to announce it with the minister shedding tears on top of it.I smell something fishy.

  • Concerned Ghanaian 7 months ago

    What exploration have companies like Akonta done before being granted the so called Mining Leases? Offshore oil exploration licences are given out for 7 years in Ghana. Oil Companies are only granted oil production licences ...
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  • Miss Mae 7 months ago

    Only in Ghana a fool like wontumi can become rich

  • Agbeli Kumordzi 7 months ago

    Wontumi committed environmental crime in Ghana
    The government need to arrest Wontumi

  • Matey 7 months ago

    There are other mines registered in his name.. Undertake due diligence of the license small scale mines and weed his companies out. Otherwise, he will be transacting on other licensed mines.

  • John KT(This Wontumi Guy must be made to pay for everything he has destroyed)) 7 months ago

    The State prosecutors must make sure Wontumi is made to pay for the the forest and all the things he has destroyed in that forest. Uf we as a country fail to do this then we are foolish County with foolish human beings. This ...
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  • KP 7 months ago

    This is nothing but a clear vendetta against NPP and its members.

  • the Villager 7 months ago

    Then go and advise Maurice Ampaw to go into Togo as he promised. The fool is still in Kumasi making inaudible noise.

  • Citizen8 7 months ago

    Pure political vendetta. You guys are cheap papa. Remember what goes round comes around.

  • Yaw Sango 7 months ago

    Good news if we continue fooling with politics our water bodies, the whole forest in Ghana and ecosystem will destroy completely

  • Oklemekuku 7 months ago

    Destroying virgin forest like nmri forest reserve to display four gold bars for it on live TV. The idiot was not licenced to mine in certain forest reserves, but he went to deatroy everything there,

  • Tom 7 months ago

    We all knew this will surely happen so not surprised at all. You did same to him some time ago so it was on your agenda that whether he is mining legally or not, you will revoke his licence. But you will be be on power foreve ...
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  • Pee Kay 7 months ago

    I am not surprised about this news. Even a child in his mother's womb knows that wontume will suffer under this government. If wontume didn't prepare for this then he is not smart. He is a target paaaaaa. NDC will do e ...
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  • Joy 7 months ago

    This revocation is long over due, as well as for wontumi to do reclamation to the lands he has destroyed. Wontumi must do reclamation or face jail sentence

  • Atsu 7 months ago

    NDC should remember their 6 feet and also 2028 I close my case

  • Northern Boy 7 months ago

    There's time for everything, including accountability

  • La Pleasure man 7 months ago

    The problem is that it will be very difficult to arrest Apeman Wontumi..
    He's living in the high trees of the jungle, shouting along with the other apes and monkeys living there.. ooh ooh aah aah..

  • Marcus Adepaye 7 months ago

    What kind of illegalities????? This action is out of jealousy, envy, avarice on the path of the NDC. The NDC and Mahama should bear in mind that Wontumi will survive this but his brother Ibrahim's business is what he has put ...
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  • KWAKU BADU (THE MAN HIDING IN THE SPIDER'S WEB 7 months ago

    ARREST WONTUMI, THE CRIMINAL NOW!!!
    The authorities in Ghana must ensure that WONTUMI, the CRIMINAL,.WHOSE AKONTA MINING COMPANY HAS DESTROYED OUR FOREST RESERVES IS ARRESTED TO FACE THE LAW.
    IT IS NOW TIME FOR THE BIG FISH ...
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  • Ke 7 months ago

    Recover damaged forest,fine and incaseration of illiterate wotumi

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  • Zakarakis 7 months ago

    Hard working Minister.

  • Mr. T. 7 months ago

    Chairman Wontumi is not my guy. To be honest, is he the only Ghanaian involve in illegal mining in the nation? Why can't the government leave the case to the judiciary? Is the minister a judge to render such a guilty stateme ...
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  • Ja 7 months ago

    The politicians always register funny names as company's & used them to corrupt the system.Nana B & Wontumi's personal drive's were all working as National security operatives.I don't know why Ndc executives in Ashanti Region ...
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  • AK 7 months ago

    NDC, take the man to court and stop the concert. The next shameful thing NDC will do is to revoke his license to operate FM and TV stations. Instead of NDC paying attention to the Bawku issue and other important things, they ...
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  • Skrillo 7 months ago

    If you are not as STUPID as your homeless father, will you say fighting against galamsey is an unimportant task? How long will you animals go about displaying your madness in opposition. Now, you and your leaders have all bec ...
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  • No size 7 months ago

    This is what we want to see the NDC do. Jail all the NPP crooks

  • Mama Saffro 7 months ago

    Great news for Ghana people. This guy should be arrested and jailed. He has destroyed the Nation with criminals Ghanaians and Criminals foreign partners. The NDC appears to be doing the right thing for the country. All thieve ...
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  • Zom 7 months ago

    Good move

  • Truth teller 7 months ago

    IS ABOUT TIME. LONG OVERDUE. THE PRESIDENT SHOULD DECLEAR STATE OF EMERGENCY. TO CRACK DOWN ON GALAMSAY CROOKS. THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HELL BURNT ON DISTROY OUR ENVIRONMENT WITH IMPUNITY. ALL THOSE GALAMSAY SAY KING PIN LIKE WU ...
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  • Gbagbladza 7 months ago

    Same woy3 a boa tis3 Akofo Addo stupid fool idiot

  • Truth teller 7 months ago

    Very good. If they found him mining illegally he should be prosecuted. We know from previous Akufo Adoo minister of lands accuse akonta mining illegally at one of our reserve forest in the WESTERN REGION. HE IS GREEDY BASTARD ...
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  • Owusu 7 months ago

    Those politicians who are enriching themselves with Ghanaian mineral resources. Stealing and corruption, it may be a decade the Ghanaian youth will rise against them and attack them in public you make it. Especially these NPP ...
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  • Cuofem 7 months ago

    Hallelujah but what took you so long, JM? Stop dining with these demonic akyempanzees and their family and friends, they are all inimical to your success and our progress!

  • Ghanaba kwaku 7 months ago

    It is something they have planned to do long time.
    I knew they would do it

  • Kwame NPP 7 months ago

    Now you can go and show more gold bars on tv ! Aboa !