NAIMOS seizes Excavators and arrests galamseyer who attempted bribing the Taskforce and four (4) others at Cape Three Points

The NAIMOS Taskforce operating in the Ahanta West Municipality continued its crackdown on illegal mining activities on Saturday 31 January 2026, resisting an attempted  bribe by a Galamsey Kinpin and causing his arrest at Cape three point general area in the Ahanta West Municipality.

At about 0840 hrs, the task force raided several illegal mining sites within the Cape Three Points forest reserve, where there had been vast destruction of the forests by the illegal miners. The Task force subsequently burnt several makeshift structures and illegal mining equipment seen at sites. 

As part of the operations, the Team retrieved two (2) Excavators which had been immobilized by taking their monitors and hidden at the site by the illegal miners. The NAIMOS operators, managed to recover the immobilized excavators and made arrangements to convey the excavators to the NAIMOS equipment holding area at Takoradi.

However, whiles on the movement of the excavators from the forest to the road for onward movement to the Takoradi Base, an individual suspected to be a Galamsey Kinpin named BRIGHT MENSAH who claimed to be owner of the excavators, onboard a white Pickup with Registration Number GT 8299-24 approached one of the Taskforce members to bribe him to release the excavators with a sum of Twenty Thousand Ghana Cedis (Ghc20,000).

The suspected Kinpin, Bright Mensah, and Four (4) other illegal miners who were later traced to Bright Mensah’s galamsey site were subsequently arrested by the Task force and handed over to the Abura Police station in the Agona Nkwanta district. The suspect’s white Pickup vehicle was also seized by taskforce.