The Member of Parliament for Atwima Kwanwoma Constituency, Kofi Amankwa-Manu has stated that the fight against illegal mining is ineffective because the key illegal miners have not been dealt with.
Speaking to Joy News on April 8, 2025, he stated that the directive by the Minister of the Interior, Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka, to deploy police commanders to the mining areas is not feasible in the fight against illegal mining.
He disclosed that some perpetrators of the illicit mining are influential people in society who remain untouchable to security operatives. "What do you achieve by just transferring police officers?
How are they going to fix the problem when the actors of the problem, themselves, are not being arrested or not being dealt with? "You and I know that there are also bigwigs behind this thing.