River wardens deployed in renewed fight against galamsey | 3News.com

Hence, we are of the firm believe that if these river wardens who are going to monitor these activities work as expected, we believe it will go a long way to help protect our water bodies.”

He added that the river wardens who will be stationed permanently on water bodies “will be working closely with the Riverine Command of the Navy and Operation Halt II Contingent from time to time}

To ensure that the river wardens are highly motivated to do their work devoid of any compromises, Mr

Mireku Duker said “we have put various performance monitoring systems in place and will ensure that, hardworking river wardens and groups are rewarded”.

I must also indicate that, the permanent status of river wardens will depend on how successful this exercise becomes.”

Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Minerals Commission Samuel Tika, on his part, stated that to prevent the river wardens from becoming too familiar thereby sowing seeds of collusion they will be rotated.

Some of the river wardens emphasized that they fully appreciate government’s desire to stop illegal mining and pledged to work assiduously to ensure that it is achieved.