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The Okyehene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panyin has taken on law enforcement agencies for failing to arrest and prosecute foreigners and other locals engaged in illegal mining in the country.He criticized state agencies for looking on while illegal miners steal the country’s mineral resources and also evade taxes.The Moderator of the Presbyterian church of Ghana, Rt. Rev Professor Emmanuel Martey had expressed similar concerns with a sharp criticism of the police.The Okyehene was speaking at the launch of the Eastern regional Policy Fair.“The law says that anybody who wants to engage in mining go Mineral Commission and get a license.“The land says the land may belong to a chief; the farm may belong to a cocoa farmer but the ore underneath the ground, the president holds that in trust for the people.So if somebody uses the excavator in broad day and stealing something that belongs to central government the national security, Minerals Commission, EPA, Forest Commission the police, security agencies should in plain language arrest the person who is stealing from the people of Ghana,” he said.
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