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Bono Minister fights illegal lumbering, galamsey

The Bono Regional Minister Madam Justina Owusu-Banahene has expressed concern about the growing degradation of the area’s environment through illegal logging and illegal mining.

Date Created : 6/30/2021 12:00:00 AM : Story Author :

The Minister has however, vowed to fight the canker.

She described the situation as disturbing and urged the forestry task force, assembly members, chiefs, the unit committees and other stakeholders to do more to rein in the offenders in their various communities across the region.

Justina Owusu-Banahene disclosed this when she held separate meetings with the regional security council, district and municipal security council at Dormaa West and Dormaa Central respectively.

At Dormaa West the purpose was to find lasting solutions to the various security challenges confronting the area and also intensify the fight against illegal lumbering, whilest at Dormaa Central measures were put in place to eradicate illegal mining among others.

The Minister also visited Nkrankwanta forest as well as the galamsey site at Dormaa Ahenkro to ascertain the extent of damage done at those areas.

The Bono Regional Minister Justina Owusu-Banahene also said, this impunity needs to be tackled head-on without wasting time and as such the Regional Coordinating council together with the various Security Committee had put in place some radical measures to check these illegal activities.

She averred that given the urgency to prevent further lose as well as an impending runaway climate change and irreversible biodiversity loss, Ghana as a country needs to bridle in deforestation before its too late and she explained it must be a collective responsibility.