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Regional News from Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-07-16
Officials inspecting the extent of damage caused by operators of illegal chain saws
Officials of the Forest Services Division of the Forestry Commission arrested four illegal chainsaw operators who entered the Mpameso Forest Reserve in the Dormaa Forest District to harvest 18 trees.
They are Amadu Moro, Shadrack Mensah, Kwabena Albert and Kwame Joe.
Dr. Ebenezer Djagbletey, Regional FSD Manager at Bono, told the Daily Graphic that the division's managers had been informed of the alleged chain saw operators' activities, but that they were not at home. the height of the suspects.
FSD officials returned to the strategy and returned to the reserve with security guards in the early hours of Sunday, July 7, 2019.
Dr. Djagbletey said the team met the four people at the back of the reserve sawing the logs in the night.
According to him, there was also a vehicle parked nearby, ready to transport the wood out of the forest.
Police take over
Dr. Djagbletey said that although some of the illegal chainsaw operators had fled, the team was able to arrest the four people and hand them over to the police for further action.
Police are currently on bail pending the completion of investigations and possible prosecutions.
The FSD regional manager stated that the chainsaws and motorcycles used by the suspects had been seized, while the vehicle tires had been deflated by the security personnel.
He added that efforts were underway to speed up the prosecution of the guilty parties in order to discourage people wishing to enter the region's forest reserves from engaging in chainsaw activities.
Dr Djagbletey lamented that if the government invested considerable sums in restoring the country's forest cover, villains wanted to reverse the gains made so far by their harmful activities.
He called on members of the various forest periphery communities to work with the authorities in their efforts to protect the reserves for posterity.
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