04
Oct
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 to engage in galamsey operations. “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.…