PHOTOS: Illegal miners vandalize NDC, NPP offices in Obuasi

Some irate youth said to be galamsey operators in Obuasi on Wednesday went on rampage destroying officer, posters, banners and billboards of the ruling National Democratic Congress(NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Chanting “no galamsey, no votes”, the demonstrators destroyed windows, TV decoders, billboards, plastic chairs and other properties they could lay hands on at the premises of the NDC’s Obuasi office.

According to Peace FM’s Obuasi Correspondent Stephen Sekyere, the galamsey operators staged the protest march over a quit order given them by the Minerals Commission in connection with their activities in the AngloGold Ashanti concession in the area.

The miners were to vacate the concession immediately or be forced out by Monday, 10 October, 2016.

The Commission, in collaboration with the Movement Committee, fashioned out modalities to relocate the illegal small-scale miners from AGA’s concession.

Meanwhile, there is said to be a heavy Military presence in Obuasi to restore calm.

See pictures below

Irate Youth on rampage @ Obuasi

POST TAGS

ABOUT: Nana Kwesi Coomson

[email protected]

An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.

View all posts by: Nana Kwesi Coomson