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General News of Saturday, January 26, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-01-26
The Shaanxi Mining Company has always been ordered to stop operations in Gbani
A group, called Concerned Youth of Talensi, is claiming compensation for the parents of sixteen miners who lost their lives after being trapped in an extraction pit in Talensi district, in the far east of the region.
The Association accused the Shaanxi mining company of deliberately blasting with toxic chemicals that resulted in death.
At a press conference on Friday, youth spokesman Bismark Zumah insisted that Shaanxi should compensate the families of the deceased.
This appeal comes despite the fact that the company was not found guilty of the incident.
"If we consider the number of people who died as a result of this explosion, some of them have dependents; some of them have women and children, and now that they are gone, who will take care of them? We are therefore asking for adequate compensation so that we can take care of the families they have left behind. "
"If it was not Shaanxi who carried out this illegal blasting, these people would not have lost their lives. The company itself has not been badured. We can not live in Ghana and continue to allow this illegality to happen on our land. We demand their immediate departure from our land. We can not be with them anymore, "complained Mr. Zumah.
The accident occurred on Wednesday near a Shaanxi mine site, although the company moved away from the incident, blaming a certain Kwasi Bantama, a supposedly illegal miner.
The Shaanxi Mining Company and the alleged illegal miner have all been ordered by the Minerals Commission to halt operations in Gbani after the deaths to allow investigations.
Eight people were arrested, including Kwasi Bantama as part of the incident.
Five of those arrested were workers at the Shaanxi Mining Company, according to Paul Ayertey of DCOP, deputy police commander of the Upper East East, who spoke in Eyewitness News.
This is the second such suspension following an incident in 2017, which claimed the lives of 7 people.
The bodies of the 16 miners who lost their lives in the blast were handed over to their families for burial.
Dr. Patrick Atobrah, medical director of the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital, said other miners injured on admission were responding to the treatment.
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