Environmental journalist Erastus Asare Donkor has made alarming allegations regarding the military’s involvement in shielding an illegal mining operation deep within the Anwiaso East Forest Reserve in the Western North region. According to Mr. Donkor, an investigative team has been monitoring the operation for months, uncovering extensive environmental damage and suspicious security activity around the site.
“We have been monitoring them for some time now,” Mr. Donkor disclosed on “The Pulse” on JoyNews. “They have military personnel protecting them. They’ve mounted a barrier manned by fully-clothed soldiers and some people wielding weapons, parading as national security operatives.” The scale of destruction, he described, is “massive,” with approximately 15 football fields’ worth of forest land already torn apart by mining pits and excavators.
The mining operation, Mr. Donkor noted, has been ongoing for months within the forest reserve. Despite submitting footage to the relevant authorities, no action has been taken, prompting him to go public with the information. “We have submitted footage to the necessary authorities who should know, and we were expecting that something would have been done,” he said. “But we have not heard anything from them. That is why we are also putting out this information.”
The site, described as a “secret illegal mining enclave,” operates without any valid mining license, with Mr. Donkor emphasizing that it is entirely unregistered and unauthorized.
