President John Dramani Mahama has directed the Ministers of Lands and Natural Resources, Interior, and Attorney-General and Minister of Justice to arrest and prosecute any person or group of persons engaged in illegal mining anywhere in the country.
Similarly, the government, President Mahama said has not issued any lease to anybody to mine in any forest in the country and any person found engaged in the act must be dealt with in accordance with law. •President John Mahama (left) swearing in the ministers "Let me state categorically that this government has not given any person or group of persons any authority to carry out any form of mining in forest reserves as recently reported.
He gave this directive at the Presidency in Accra on Thursday when he swore into office 14 ministers made up of six sector ministers and eight regional ministers.
According to President Mahama it shall be the policy of his government to ban the issuance of leases for mining in all forest reserves in the country.
