The Municipal Chief Executive of Obuasi, Honorable Elijah Adansi-Bonah has issued a sturdy caution to unlawful miners running at the concession of AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine to at once desist from such sports.
The MCE gave this directive in his interactions with the media on the sidelines of a General Assembly assembly held in Obuasi on Wednesday, twenty seventh July, 2022.
It can be recalled that a few unlawful miners had been captured in a viral video jogging away with their booty after invading underground webweb sites of AngloGold Ashanti in Obuasi. Again a few 30 unlawful miners had been these days arrested in Obuasi through squaddies whilst allegedly mining on a concession belonging to AngloGold Ashanti.
The Obuasi MCE stated the problem ought to be of countrywide hobby thinking about the significance of AngloGold Ashanti to the socio-monetary improvement of Ghana.
" This trouble may be very sensitive. It isn't always approximately AngloGold Ashanti nor the Obuasi Municipal Assembly, it's miles of countrywide difficulty when you consider that sports of unlawful miners at the concessions of AngloGold Ashanti turned into one of the motives the business enterprise nearly folded up round 2014/2015," he stated.
He noted that the business enterprise has contributed incredibly to the improvement of Obuasi when you consider that 2019 while it turned into redeveloped fearing that an intrusion in their underground webweb sites and concessions will jeopardise efforts made through the Government in reviving the Obuasi Mine.
He appealed to citizens of Obuasi to take benefit of the severa possibilities provided through AngloGold Ashanti in each direct and oblique jobs and now no longer create a state of affairs in which the Mine will recall leaving Obuasi.
Issues of unlawful mining has been a first-rate headache of AngloGold Ashanti because the business enterprise has over time struggled to cope with the sports of unlawful miners in its Obuasi Mine.
In 2016, AngloGold Ashanti issued a hazard that it'll depart the usa if authorities turned into now no longer capable of prevent the operations of unlawful miners on their concessions.
Speaking to the click in Accra, the Managing Director of AngloGold Ashanti, Mr. Eric Asubonteng stated the sports of unlawful miners is posing a hazard to the safety and peace of the mine and is affecting the powerful operations of Obuasi mine.
“Our concessions aren't secure and if the sports of unlawful miners will retain with out authorities doing something approximately it then we are able to advocate ourselves.
"Illegal miners had been looting big portions of high-grade gold bearing cloth for extra than months. In the technique they're inflicting substantial harm to important infrastructure,” he stated.
A deep throat supply at AngloGold Ashanti has discovered to this reporter that buyers are presently now no longer satisfied with latest traits concerning the invasion of the Obuasi Mine through unlawful miners and are operating with stakeholders for a speedy intervention to salvage the state of affairs.