The Member of Parliament for Kumbungu in the Northern region, Ras Mubarak has vowed to take on military personnel that stormed the district to destroy some 14 tipper trucks and an excavator following a crackdown on illegal sand miners along the White River at Nawuni near Kumbungu in the Northern Region.
The rage by the military follows an earlier warning by the Northern regional Security Council(REGSEC).
The Kumbungu lawmaker who described the incident as savagery, has said he’ll leave no stone unturned to get compensation for the affected persons.
“You don’t solve an illegal problem by committing an illegality. They are going to get this country into serious legal issues that might culminate into compensations and judgment debt. We will ensure that those people whose properties were burned down get justice. We would ensure that the necessary legal remedies are undertaken, so that people get justice.” he stated in an interview with Accra-based Joy FM.
Armed infantries of the Sixth Battalion deployed from their military base in Kamina Barracks in Tamale, Saturday, March 3, carried out a combative operation to intensify a crackdown on illegal sand winning activities in the area.
According to reports, dozens of heavy sand mining machines including about fourteen (14) tipper trucks and an excavator were burnt by the soldiers who stormed the area by trucks.
The illegal miners fled the area before the armed forces arrived, thus no arrest was made.
Some residents and miners who saw the soldiers advancing towards the mining site said they counted about three military trucks loaded with heavily armed soldiers.
One of the trucks was carrying a canoe, a panicked resident of Dalun, a village along the path to the river told Kasapa News.
The unregulated operation by the miners have polluted the water source, caused deep environmental damages, pushed farmers away from farmlands and forced fishmongers to hang their nets.
Despite several efforts by the Regional Security Council, the activity persisted until management of the Ghana Water Company engaged national security personnel to combat the activity.
Source: kasapafmonline.com
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Anjaana anybody can open his mouth to any angle at all and talk ***barred word*** but about the state of the water and the farmland? You are just talking about your dirty lazy money. when people are hungry and are not getting water to drink,you are in your our house,using our money for your family. ***barred word***! stop making noise over there. If you are a man go and buy trucks for them so that they will return to the site and you yourself you will see action. If it was your grandfather and Grandmother that is farming to eat and they are destroying the farmland will you be happy. ***barred word*** MP
WHO IS THIS TA*NII AT ALL? NDC MEMBERS SHOULD NEVER NEVER DREAM OF COMING BACK TO POWER, PERIOD !!
Taking a loan from the bank is not a license to degraded the environments either. If there is no job other than destroying the environments, how not come to your house and rob you of your belongs. Wise UUP bros
IF IT IS IN YOUR DREAMS, SO BE IT BUT GAF WILL NEVER PAY CRIMINALS SUPPORTED BY NDC FIR ANYTHING!
IN FACT YOU GUYS SHOULD STOP SUPPORTING WHAT THE SOLDIERS DID IS JUST NOT GOOD FEAR GOD AND SUPPORT GOOD PRACTICE. THERE IS NO JOB IN THE COUNTRY SOME OF THEM EVEN TOOK LOANS TO BUY ALL THIS TRUCKS AND YOU ARE SUPPORTING BURNING IT? BECOS OF POLITICS YOU GUYS ARE SUPPORTING WHAT IS WRONG? ONE DAY IT WILL BE YOU GUYS MARK IT.NPP WILL NEVER BE IN POWER FOREVER KEEP SUPPORTING WRONG THINGS VERY SOON IT WILL RICH U.
THIS IS A SHA*MEFUL STATEMENT FROM A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. I THINK THE HOUSE (PARLIAMENT) NEEDS TO SANCTION MUBARACK FOR SUCH AN UN*WISE STATEMENT. WHAT IS MUBARACK'S USE IN THE HOUSE (PARLIAMENT)? TO ENCOURAGE ILLEGALITY FOR HIS PEOPLE (CONSTITUENTS)AGAINST THE INTEREST OF THE STATE? I DON'T THINK MUBARACK DESERVES ANOTHER TERM IN PARLIAMENT AND SHOULD END HIS POLITICAL CARRIER SOON. I FORESEE A DIFFICULTY FOR MUBARACK IN ADMONISHING HIS CHILDREN WHEN THEY ERR OR GO WRONG. BEING A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT DOES NOT MEAN YOU JUST HAVE TO SUPPORT YOUR CONSTITUENTS TO CARRIER ON WITH THEIR ILLEGALITY. ARE THE VEHICLES MORE IMPORTANT THAN ARMED ROBBERS WHO HAVE BEEN GUUNED DOWN BY THE POLICE TO SAVE YOU (MUBARACK) AND ME WITHOUT ANY COMPENSATION TO THEIR (ARMED ROBBERS)FAMILIES? THE COMPENSATION TO THESE ILLEGAL SAND WINNERS IS THE ILLEGAL MONIES THEY HAVE MADE ALL THESE YEARS CARRYING ON THEIR NEFARIOUS ACTIVITIES. ANY COURT ASKED TO HANDLE THE CASE SHOULD SEND FOR THE DAMAGED COST TO THE ENVIRONMENT, TO THE PEOPLE IN KUMBUNGU AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS AND TO THE ENTIRE COUNTRY AND SURCHARGE IT (THE COST AMOUNT) TO THEM (SAND WINNERS)AND FAILURE TO PAY SHOULD SEE THEM ENJOYING IN THE MAXIMUM PRISONS LIKE ANY OTHER CRIMINAL
I always say characters like this is the reason why Ghana is in this mess state.lawlessness everywhere,they hide behind and commit all kind of crime against the state and the environment.Idiiioot of an MP.What they do is that they run leaving their equipment behind when the security pursues them and come back to continue when they go.I just love the Military I edge them to continue to burn they equipment whenever they run away being it Galamsey operation or Sand winning whatever
So the people should get justice but no justice to the environment. Greedy people like this are leaders.
Oh Ghana, an MP sitting in a car with rubber cover on the seat in this heat? Nkruases3m nkoaa!
Hon. You're jocking. You're starting a battle you cannot finish. Lawless Ghanaian Parliamentarian at it again. Aristotle said ( politics is for ***barred word***). how then can someone like you win a seat in Ghana?