Landowners within the Akyem Abuakwa State risk losing their lands for life if they release it to illegal miners.
The Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Council has indicated that all lands mined and abandoned with open pits shall be reclaimed and handed over to the stool again.
Addressing a durbar of Chiefs and people of the Gyaase division in Akyem Abuakwa State as part of activities marking his 25th-anniversary celebration on the ascension to the Ofori Panin Stool, Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin announced that, the incident of illegal mining coupled with the many abandoned open pits continue to pose health risk to the citizens.
He indicated that all abandoned mines shall be reclaimed by the traditional council and same be taken over for life. "We have a decree at the State Council that, any land owner who releases his/her land to a miner stand the chance of losing it for life if the miners do not reclaim the land after mining.