Ghana:  Arrest, prosecute illegal miners …President Mahama directs 3 ministers to take action

President John Drama­ni Mahama has directed the Ministers of Lands and Natural Resources, Interior, and Attor­ney-General and Minister of Justice to arrest and prosecute any person or group of persons engaged in illegal mining anywhere in the country.

Similarly, the government, President Mahama said has not issued any lease to anybody to mine in any forest in the country and any person found engaged in the act must be dealt with in accor­dance with law.