Protesters against illegal small-scale mining (Galamsey) need more support and protection, the Founder of the Pan African Heritage Museum, Kojo Yankah has said.
Recently, some protesters were arrested during their second day of demonstration [September 22] against galamsey have been detained and remanded into prison and police custody.
They have been scheduled to reappear in court on October 8.
They were charged with offences such as conspiracy to commit crime, unlawful assembly, causing unlawful damage, offensive conduct conducive to breach of peace, assault on public officer and defacement of public notice.