Galamsey: 99 excavators retrieved, 208 suspects so far arrested - Police

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  • Today @ BWC TV 7 months ago

    A woman boasting and proudly of galamsey , Oya go retrieve her she is polluting the environment

  • Konfo 7 months ago

    They must all go to jail.

  • TWEAA DC 7 months ago

    TWEAA....GHANA POLICE?....THAT IS THE END OF THE STORY...TWEAA.

  • Funny country 7 months ago

    Kudos to the Ghana police service. I congratulate you for not burning the excavators but preserving them. Kindly use these same guys to sense their prison terms by using the bulldozers and excavators to facilitate road constr ...
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  • Ekow C 7 months ago

    This is a positive advice. Making good use of the machines confiscated for road construction, for reclaiming the lands, etc and more importantly using the culprits to achieve this more positive objectives including the arres ...
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  • IsaacUSA 7 months ago

    Build a new prison camp in the Afram Plains and use them to farm for 5 years to supply schools with maize and beans. Don't just keep them in the prisons. Including the Chinese too. Let them work on the farms for 5 years .

  • Ekow C 7 months ago

    Kudos to our police officers. What a difference Ghana is witnessing under the able leadership of John Dramani Mahama.
    Please let the NPP go on Demo over the everyday achievement by the government unfolding before our very e ...
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  • Yaa Dua 7 months ago

    These operations are amateur in nature.
    Who buys the gold from these so-called illegal miners?
    Where are the Chinese illegal miners who have been previously arrested?
    These and many more questions need answers.
    Arresting ...
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  • Sebastian Deh 7 months ago

    Where are the excavator owners? Didn't they seize any gold and cash? The police should come clear.

  • Odjame 7 months ago

    What about the eastern and Ashanti regions?

  • Kan 7 months ago

    Burn all those excavators and jail any protestor. They are nation wreckers.

  • MAN JUSTICE 7 months ago

    R E T R I E V E?

  • Tosh 7 months ago

    Good job so far. Just make sure all those arrested are prosecuted, and the equipment seized never get back into the forest, or vanish into thin air, like happened before. It this operation is relentless, it would soon make to ...
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  • Seth 7 months ago

    Ghana Police, well done for your fight against galamsey. Galamsey is destroying our very existence as a people. Our lives depend on our water bodies and forest. May the good God protect you and bless you for this fight

  • Shamo 7 months ago

    Is not about excavators confiscation,we are interested about complete end to galamsey .We are not in the forest to monitor because whiles boasting of suisure of the rivers are becoming worse and poisonous.Much Ado about nothi ...
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  • OSAFO KANTANKA 7 months ago

    Just to remind the police services that all Excavators and other machinery for all the criminal activities have Chassis numbers that could lead them to the owners of these machines being used in all these criminal

  • Shamo 7 months ago

    NPP did the same and Mahama then in opposition said when he comes to power he will release them from prison,why are you arresting them now .you have lost Central, western and Western North Regions already .What about the Chin ...
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  • Pelicles. 7 months ago

    If John Mahama stops "Galamsey" today, it is no news, why? Yes, it is no news because their government put galamsey on the international platform, and that is how we get here.

    Have we forgotten that NDC government under Mi ...
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