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GAPNEWS Stay Off Akyem Hemang & BB Alang Co. Ltd. Impasse; Angry Residents Warn Okyehene Traditional Leaders and Residents of Akyem Hemang in Fanteakwa  South District of the Eastern Region have called on His Royal Highness, Osagyefo Amotia Ofori Panin and the Kyebi Executive Council to recuse themselves from the BB Alang Co. Ltd. and the people of Akyem Hemang impasse and allow the Court to decide on the merit of the case pending before it. According to them, the interference of Osagyefo Amotia Ofori Panin and the Kyebi Executive Council in the said matter will not help but trigger uncontrolled tension within the area. At a press conference to set the records straight, angry residents who were cladded in red and black armbands and headgears, believed that the Okyehene and Ofori Panin Fie do not have the jurisdiction to adjudicate on the legal and lawful status of BB Alang Company Limited as far as felling of Timber in their forest is concerned. Addressing the M

GAPNEWS Most rural banks are well capitalized—ARB Apex Bank MD The Managing Director of the ARB Apex Bank, Kojo Mattah has maintained that most of the rural and community banks operating in the country are well capitalized and serving their clients, contrary to reports that majority of them are struggling. He stated that the services rendered by rural banks are critical to the economic stability of the country. “I can tell you that most of the rural and community banks are well capitalized and operating very well” he said adding that there is no need for panic withdrawals. According to him, over six million Ghanaians have different accounts with rural banks, making the industry a crucial one in closing the gap between the unbanked and banking population. Concept of rural banking The rural and community banking concept was introduced in 1976 with a view to providing financial intermediation in rural areas. Typically, there are about 140 rural and community banks in Ghana

GAPNEWS Stop The Miners, Or We Stop Them Ourselves’-Combined Youth of Hemang, Dome and Gyampomani Warn this video show that they in process to start the illegal mining. The combined youth of Akyem Hemang, Dome and Gyampomani in the Fanteakwa South District in the eastern region said they will not entertain any form of what they described as ”irresponsible” mining activities in their communities. The group, in a Press statement to indicate their displeasure at some ongoing development, stated that if efforts are not taken by government and the necessary authorities to stop persons from carrying out irresponsible mining, they (residents of the three communities) will do so. “If you don’t stop them, we’ll stop them, we have the men,” Johnson Appiah, Convener to the group and his colleague leaders stated in the statement. According to them the Mining Act 703 and Act 206 outlines  ways by which  minerals including gold should be mined, saying that” we

GAPNEWS Osabarima Professor Mirikissi Apori Atta Is Still Our Chief – Hemang Community The hemang chief Osabarima Professor Mirikissi Apori Atta was distool for protecting the Hemang lands against illegal miners (galamsey) The Youth and people of Hemang have risen up against some publications in the media suggesting the destoolment of their Chief, Osabarima Professor Mirikissi Apori Atta. The Youth and the people who are unhappy about the said publication and indicated that Osabarima Professor Mirikissi Apori Atta remains their Chief and that there is no way they will seat down aloft to see such an injustice to be perpetrated against their Chief who has over the years, defended their course and worked so hard to make life comfortable for them. They have called on people who are trying to meddle in their chieftaincy to stay off. Their position stems from a publication on July 1, 2019 claiming that their Chief had been destooled. The whole Hemang, we can say, is in tur