The environmental protection agency here in the western region is set to charge sand winning companies in the Metropolis 5000gh for spilling their raw materials on roads.
This comes in a wake of the agency recieving claims from Asempa legal consult and other stakeholders for such practices which inconvenience general citizens
Sand mining occurs when people illegally scoop sand from the beaches, dunes, or river beds mainly for construction.
It is “supposedly” illegal. However, people have persisted in this venture dating back to the pre-independence era.
This activity has been identified to be widespread across all the coastal regions of the country.
Speaking to Beach News on the sideline of stakeholder consultation that sought to provide lasting solution to the menace, Eugene George Diahoro as representative of EPA shared some of the measure’s institution has put in place to avert the situation.
“We have designed something from the various district assemblies to enable us easily track perpetrators of spillages”
“We are also putting a penalty of ¢5000 on vehicles that spill or overloaded, we however encourage them to cover all their vehicles in the transportation of the raw materials for tiles “he said.
Author-Matilda Timmy Youpele
