The Forestry Commission has apprehended 11 Chinese nationals and ten Ghanaians in a coordinated, intelligence-driven raid on unlawful mining actions inside the Yakombo Forest Reserve within the Buipe Forest District of the Savannah Region.

The operation came about on Tuesday, December 2 by way of a 51-member staff made up of wooded area guards from the Buipe and Bole Forest District places of work of the Forest Services Division, supported by way of 3 Rapid Response devices, to dismantle the illicit mining actions within the secure reserve.

The suspects had been apprehended in Compartments 50 and 51 of the reserve, close to Tuntumba within the Bole-Bamboi District.

The Yakombo Forest Reserve—created in 1974 and spanning kind of 1,210 sq. kilometres—stays Ghana’s biggest wooded area reserve, making the new intrusion a big danger to its ecological integrity.

The Chinese nationals arrested are: Tang Shao Qi (28), He Peng (40), Zhou Qin Sar (25), Wu Xu (39), He Chuang Ye (45), Cheng Lin (40), Long Xi (32), Yang Gesheng (51), Zhang Hongzhaojie (34), Zhou Peng (39), and Wu Yujie (24).

The Ghanaians are Alhassan Yakubu, Daniel Mba (33), Pious Kwabena (20), Emmanuel Amankra (40), Seidu Suleman (44), Sampson Akawuni (22), Thadeus Gideon (27), Mohammed Salim (21), Mohammed Kanamu (25), and Saaka Yakubu (22).

The operation additionally resulted in the seizure of automobiles and gear, together with one Toyota Hilux, two Great Wall pick-up vehicles, 3 Howo tipper vehicles, and one Man Diesel low-bed truck wearing an excavator.

All the suspects have since been transferred to the Damongo Regional Police Command to help with investigations and face imaginable prosecution. The apparatus confiscated all the way through the operation has been moved to the Mole National Park, underneath the care of the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission.

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