"Amansie Central: Six Chinese nationals arrested for mining illegally" 21 January 2022

Six Chinese nationals have been arrested during an operation by the Operation Halt taskforce who were clamping down on illegal mining activities.

The Chinese nationals were picked up at a mining site in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti Region and handed over to the Ghana Immigration Service.

“Since that is not our area, we handed them over to the Ghana Immigration to handle them,” the General Commanding Officer for the Central Command, Brigadier General Joseph Aphour, said to Citi News. [...]