equipment at the site, the illegal miners who were hiding in a rubber plantation farm around started firing guns.


The illegal miners have destroyed about 20 acre cocoa farm and vegetation and diverted the Birim river.


According to the MCE, Alhaji Umar Bodinga, the team arrested one person alleged to be the owner of the land sold to illegal miners.


He said efforts are underway to arrest the suspects at large


The MCE said landowners who lease their farmlands to illegal miners will be arrested for aiding and abetting crime.