National security operatives in the Ashanti Region say they are interrogating eight illegal miners arrested at Kokonma in the Bosomtwe District and indicated they are making extra efforts to identify individuals who spearheaded such activity.
Illegal miners have encroached on land designated for a school park at Konkoma in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region, leaving the area severely degraded and posing a serious threat to the only public school and health centre in the community.
The miners, in their search for gold, have dug dangerously close to the Konkoma D/A Basic School and the community health centre.
The mining activities, taking place barely 100 meters from the school and health centre, have left deep pits and loose earth behind.
According to school authorities, the situation poses a major safety risk to pupils, while the abandoned pits have become mosquito breeding sites, worsening health conditions for patients at the nearby facility.
Although the Bosomtwe District Assembly has intervened and initiated a reclamation exercise to restore the degraded land, security operatives say they are going after the real bosses behind the activity.
Ashanti Regional Securith Coordinator, Captain Retired John Kwame Jabari says officials are making progress with the interrogation.
