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Illegal miners will be jailed for life under my presidency – Alan Kyerematen

Accra, Oct. 02, GNA – Mr John Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, an Independent Presidential Candidate, says under his presidency, illegal miners would receive a more deterring punishment such as life sentences.

Mr Kyerematen made the promise when he took his turn at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) evening encounter, in Accra, on Tuesday.

Outlining what he said was his 10-point plan of the Great Transformation Plan (GTP), to tackle the menace, Mr Kyerematen proposed a harsher punishment for perpetrators, indicating that the current mode of punishment was not deterrent enough.

He said, under his administration, new legislation and regulations would be enacted to completely ban any form of mining in river bodies and forest reserves.

He said the legislation would be accompanied by hefty sanction regimes, including life imprisonment for the violation, to serve as deterrent.