July 14, 2019//-A joint team of armed Police and Galamstop, an anti galamsey taskforce numbering about 50 have stormed Akyem Hemang Community in the Fanteakwa south district of the Eastern Region.
This followed clashes between a mining company- Dome community mining, a small scale mining firm, and agitating residents protesting mining at the river banks of birim river.
The residents blocked the company from carting an excavator through the community to their mining site at Dome community forcing the company to reportedly unleash some thugs to also block the main road leading to the community.
The action infuriated the already incensed residents of Akyem Hemang who pounced on the thugs to beat them up and attempted to set fire into the hijacked excavator.
This has heightened tension in the community as both faction prepares to square it off but the swift intervention by armed Police officer patrolling the community has minimized the tension according to the Assembly Member, for Hemang community ,Johnson Appiah .
Akyem Hemeng recently came into the news after Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin destooled their chief -Prof.Mirikissi Apori Atta.
The destooled Chief has over the years taken entrenched position against illegal mining in the area . The Chief has been causing arrest of recalcitrants miners ostensibly to protect the environment and the Birim River .
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