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are they serious? 45 years to our own Ghanaians? and how many years do the Chinese get?
They only get 5 years each IF they cant pay the GHC5000 fine. If these guys are serious galamsey they can manage the 5000 fine.
The courts are too easy on galamsey if you ask me...
YES JAIL THE INDEGNEOUS CITIZENS AND SELL GHANA TO FOREIGNERS,MAHAMA WELL DONE.
It's a shame that there are no Chinese among these accused and convicted why? Are Ghanaians going to throw in jail for illegal mining while the Chinese go free. What a shame that this goes on in 2014
bull shit where are the Chinese bastards on this hit list.are these blackmen easy targets for the task force?
How
Free the gentlemen they were on a fee and as to what the law is to that area is a second look.
Notorious arm robber like kombian could be jailed for only 7 years and now who is suffering for his daily bread 45 years. Ghanian's be fare
If they are charge by mining on someones concession for that one is bad and therefore they are wrong but illegal mining that they might charge someones on never and ever.then armed robbering will go 100%.the government must ...
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What kind of life is that.
WHO OWNS THAT LAND ??????
This shows the extent to which the imperialists are running the show in Ghana. They are using our police and the judiciary to do their dirty work and the sentence as a warning to others. Ghana has long been hijacked by outsid ...
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It's just poverty.
Leave them alone.
Jail the politicians.
Jail the Chinese.
Give Ghanians job to do,so that they will stop that illigal mining job anh stop jailing them,folish judges and idiot police,tweaaa.
The brits come to ashanti in the 1800's, steal millions of ounces of gold. No punishment for those thieves and they still have their hands in the mines. It is like in Central Africa Republic, natural resources cause battles ...
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