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  Four persons were arrested in an exercise by the Twifo Atti Mokwa District Assembly in the Central Region in collaboration with its police command and the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) to clamp down on illegal mining activities on the River Pra at Twifo Praso last Tuesday.  The team, led by the police and the District Chief Executive, Robert Agyemang Nyantakyi, burnt five changfan machines, five boats and seized other mining equipment being used by illegal miners on the River Pra. Impact This was in response to the devastating effects of their activities on the River Pra and the environment. Last week, a two-and-a-half-year-old twins, a boy and a girl, tragically lost their lives after falling into an abandoned galamsey pit full of water. The incident occurred at Mokwa, a farming community near Twifo Praso. The incident, according to residents, was one of several in recent years caused by uncovered galamsey pits in the district. The impact of the illegal mining ac

  THE FEAR OF BAWUMIA-NAPO TICKET IS WRECKING THE NDC PARTY- HLD NPP CHAIRMAN* The NPP's flagbearer cum Vice President of the Republic of Ghana has since outdoored the energy minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh as his running mate, an event which took place in Kumasi and saw great multitude of party faithfuls and party bigwigs like Hon. Joe Ghartey, Kwadwo Nsafoah Poku, Ing. Kwabena Adjei Agyepong, Hon. Kennedy Agyepong et al.  At the said event, the outdoored running mate to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumiah was emphatic about the current government's performance on the country's development where he praised the Akufo-Addo government and likened the performance to that of the first President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and emphatically said that, "right from 1957 till date, no government has done better with Ghana's development than the Akufo-Addo government, including Kwame Nkrumah's CPP government then". The NDC has since taken a big swipe at him and washing him with coal to so da