Lands Minister: Over 3,000 excavators remain unclaimed at Tema Port

Following the introduction of a geo-fencing system to prevent the use of excavators outside of licensed mining concessions, more than 3,000 excavators being held under Ghana's equipment tracking programme have remain unclaimed at the Tema Port, the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, has said.

Mr Buah said the latest figures showed that 4,300 earth-moving and mining equipment units had now been registered at Tema Port, with 1,864 tracking devices installed.

Mr Buah said the equipment tracking exercise formed part of the government's efforts to regulate the use of earth-moving equipment and curb illegal mining.