Lower Volta small-scale miners, farmers appeal to President over NAIMOS crackdown

The Lower Volta Association of Small-Scale Miners/ Farmers has appealed to President John Dramani Mahama to intervene and resolve the impasse between the association and NAIMOS over the illegal destruction of their mining equipment. The group, numbering over 3,500 along the lower Volta, said their livelihoods depended on their small-scale mining and farming activities, hence the call for the immediate…