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Dec
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has charged chiefs in the Ashanti Region not to allow people who come with mining permits from the government to mine in their communities. Addressing chiefs at the climax of the 2022 Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs meeting, on Thursday, December 15, 2022, the Asantehene said that the chiefs, as custodians of the land, must protect it from being destroyed by illegal miners. He added that if the government is going to kill chiefs who do not allow mining in their communities, they are at liberty to do so. “We are the custodians of…