Kwasi Bonzoh, Ellembele DCE
The Ellembele District Chief Executive, Kwasi Bonzoh, has reiterated his resolve to continue battling illegal mining activities to protect the country’s natural resources for present and future generations.
The DCE has therefore stated that nothing, “not even police arrests, intimidations, name calling and frame-ups”, will stop him from battling illegal miners, no matter who are involved.
Mr Bonzoh insists that as the President’s representative in Ellembele, he cannot afford disappointing his boss, by failing to commit himself to the galamsey fight.
Speaking with journalists immediately after his release from police custody in Sekondi, in respect of some missing excavators, the DCE commended the uniformed personnel for a good job done in finding one of the missing excavators.
“I cannot disappoint the President by failing to wage a relentless warfare against galamseyers to protect lands and water bodies,” he stressed, citing destruction of the Nkroful Agriculture Secondary School land within two days.
He expressed his readiness to team up with the police, judiciary and all stakeholders in fighting this menace.
He, however, urged them to leave no stone unturned in tracing the other excavator as well as their owners.
The DCE, who was charged with five offences, including obstruction of duty, appeared before a Takoradi Circuit Court ‘B’ on Thursday.
Mr Bonzoh, together with four others, were granted police enquiry bail to help in further investigations into the missing excavator saga.
The DCE said he was not comfortable with that development since the court would have easily unraveled all mysteries surrounding the excavator saga. “The truth is on my side, so I have nothing to hide or fear,” he added.
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