'Akonta Mining not engaged in any illegal mining as we speak' – Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo has asserted that Akonta Mining Company Limited is not involved in any illegal mining anywhere in Ghana currently.

The President said this at the 28th National and 16th Biennial Congress of the National Union of Ghana Catholic Diocesan Priests Association held in Koforidua on Wednesday.

President Akufo-Addo was responding to a question from the Chairperson of the event, Ken Ashigbey with regards to Akonta Mining Company Limited’s mining activity in the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve in the Western North Region.

“Let me respond briefly to the chairperson on the issue of illegal mining.

I want to assure him and all of you that Akonta Mining is not engaged in any illegal mining anywhere in Ghana as we speak.

“Further, the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has through the agency of the Forestry Commission with the assistance of the military made the effort to cordon off all 294 sites of forest reserves in the country and rid them of illegal mining as we speak.”

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The Company, which belongs to New Patriotic Party’s Ashanti Region Chairman, Bernard Antwi-Boasiako was prevented from mining in the Tano Nimiri forest reserve in October 2022 by the Lands Ministry.

According to the Ministry, even though Akonta Mining Limited has a mining lease to undertake mining operations in some parts of Samreboi, outside the Forest Reserve, “the company has no mineral right to undertake any mining operations in the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve”.

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