By Robert Tachie Menson, GNA
Kyeremasu (Bono), April 15, GNA – Madam Khadija Adjei, the Assembly Member for the Atanofie Electoral Area in the Dormaa Municipality of the Bono Region, has expressed concern about the growing acts of youth lawlessness in the area.
She said it was unfortunate that many of the youth in the area were resolute in engaging in illegal mining practices, despite persistent warnings against engaging in the galamsey activities.
“The youth here have become adamant refusing to disengage themselves from illegal mining and avail themselves for alternative source of livelihoods”, she told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview at Kyeremasu in the Municipality.
Her worries followed a street protest by irate youth of the town to register their displeasure over the killing of a young man in the area.
The deceased was allegedly gunned down by unidentified people at a galamsey site at Akontanim also in the Dormaa East District on Monday, April 13, 2026.
Madam Adjei described the death as unfortunate and called for expeditious police investigations to apprehend and bring the perpetrators to book, saying that the Assembly was yet to establish whether an anti-galamsey taskforce set up by the Dormaa Traditional Council orchestrated the killing.
The irate youth of the town who wore red armbands and head gears and wielded offensive instruments hit the streets and blocked all the major roads in the Township and burned plastic materials and car tyres in the early hours of Tuesday April 14 amid firing of musketries.
Due to their action, many passengers and travelers were stranded as vehicles that plied Kyeremasu-Dormaa Ahenkro-Wamfie-Amasu-Akontanim roads could not move.
However, the rapid response of a team of security personnel comprising the police and the military saved the situation.
Relative calm and normalcy have since returned to the Kyeremasu Township.
GNA
Edited by Dennis Peprah/Benjamin Mensah