Amid Threats To Kill, Galamseyers Invade, Destroy Desiri Forest Reserve At Dumesua | General News

Illegal miners (galamsayers) have invaded the Desiri Forest Reserve (DFR) at Dumesua close to Tepa within the Ashanti area.

They have additionally threatened to kill officers of the Forest Services Division of the Forestry Commission for making an attempt to evict them from the reserve.

The Forestry Commission has not granted entry allow to prospecting, neighborhood mining and galamsey operators the place they have been working day and night time within the forest reserve.

The Mankranso District Manager of the Forest Services Division (FSD), Godwin Agyeman, who disclosed this on Wednesday mentioned the galamseyers have been totally armed with weapons, cutlasses, catapults and different dangerous supplies saying that they'd outnumbered officers on the bottom.

Consequently, he has appealed for help of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources (MLNR), to flush out unlawful miners from the world.

Speaking to journalists in an interview in regards to the state of the Desiri Forest Reserve indicated that timber and different forest merchandise have been fully destroyed with excavators, whereas water our bodies within the reserve have additionally been polluted with toxic chemical substances and dirt.

“They have erected many structures, giant machines (including excavators and changfans), and dug several pits. They have also erected their own sign post at the forest entry point,” he bemoaned.

The District Manager added that each time officers of the FSD visited the forest, many totally armed machomen would seem from their hideouts within the forest to encompass and threaten them.

Mr Agyeman was optimistic that the intervention of the MLNR, galamstop workforce, Officers of the National Security and different safety apparatuses, would get their tools and buildings burnt, and culprits prosecuted.

He expressed concern about how big funding made by government and different Non – Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to protect the forest reserve for posterity, has been fully destroyed by these nation-wreckers.

The District Manager appealed to the assorted media retailers within the space to teach most people on the quite a few unfavourable results of galamsey on the atmosphere, human and animal lives.

Mr Agyeman indicated that God created forests and water our bodies for the goodness of mankind and animal lives saying that we have now to guard and keep them for our personal well-being.