A combined team drawn from the First Infantry Battalion under the Southern Command and personnel from the Eastern Regional Police Command have arrested 7 illegal miners destroying water bodies and degrading farmlands in the Eastern Region.
The Operation was led by the Eastern Regional Minister Rita Akosua Awatey through Akyem Kubriso in Lower West Akyem, Atewa West, Akyem Takyiman in the Kwaebibirim District, Ayensuano and Osino in the Fanteakwa South District.
The team confiscation several excavators, 16 water pumps, 24 excavator batteries and a chain saw machine.
Other items seized in the operation include two pump action guns, three single barrel rifles, washing carpets and a gold weighing scale.
