A journalist, Erastus Asare Darko, has shared the harrowing details of how he and his team from Joy News were assaulted by heavily-armed men at an illegal mining site at Manso Nkran in the Ashanti Region.
Recounting his ordeal, he stated that the men, numbering about ten, ambushed them, forced them to a secluded area, and subjected them to severe beatings. "It was supposed to be one of the normal investigations we do.
We got information from a very respectable Ghanaian that what they are doing to the restored forest wasn't correct.
We set out on Sunday.