{"id":54846,"date":"2019-12-15T15:26:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T07:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54846"},"modified":"2019-12-15T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T07:29:08","slug":"62-arrested-for-illegal-mining-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54846","title":{"rendered":"62 Arrested For Illegal Mining In Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ACCRA, Dec 15 (NNN-GNA) &#8211; Police said Saturday that, 62 people were arrested, on suspicion of illegal mining, at the western Ghanaian town of Kenyasi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move came after a series of complaints from an international gold firm, Newmont Goldcorp, over the incursions of illegal miners into their concession, in Kenyasi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kwaku Buadu Peprah, a regional police commander, who led the operation, said that, they clamped down on the illegal mining activities at around 4.00 in the morning (GMT 0400).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspects, including two women, would be arraigned on Monday (tomorrow), he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As one of the largest gold producers and exporters in Africa, Ghana has been waging a war against illegal mining, which has caused pollution of major water bodies in mineral-rich territories.&#8211; NNN-GNA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACCRA, Dec 15 (NNN-GNA) &#8211; Police said Saturday that, 62 people were arrested, on suspicion of illegal mining, at the western Ghanaian town of Kenyasi. The move came after a series of complaints from an international gold firm, Newmont Goldcorp, over the incursions of illegal miners into their concession, in Kenyasi. Kwaku Buadu Peprah, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,300],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54846"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}