Owner of Akonta Mining Limited, Chairman Wontumi has vowed to protect the Nimiri Forest Reserve from operations of galamsey miners in the Nimiri Forest reserve.
“I applied for Nimiri forest which is at Western North…I don’t have lease there but the truth is that they have gazetted the place for me”, Chairman Wontumi, who is also the Ashanti Regional Chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) said.
In 2013, he recounted that some illegal miners invaded his mining site and left the place in deplorable state forcing him to use his own money for reclamation.
Chairman Wontumi however stated on Wontumi TV which was monitored by Wontumionline.com that he is yet to get a license to mine in the Nimiri forest but has the forest gazetted to his company- Akonta Mining Limited.
“Now that I have the place has been gazette to me, if I am unable to protect the place from the illegal miners, they will let me use my money to recover the land”, he said.
The NPP Chairman revealed that as soon as he becoming formalizing things to move to the Nimiri forest, Samartex wrote a letter to his company through their lawyers that they won’t allow him to work at the place.
“I also replied them through my lawyers and the issue is at Sekondi court and we are expecting judgment”, he said.
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