The Convenor of the Media Coalition Against Galamsey, Kenneth Ashigbey has said the coalition will consider a legal step against those who attacked journalist Erastus Asare Donkor and his colleagues in the Ashanti region recently.
"We will be waiting and hoping that some work (arrest and prosecution) will be done. We are not just going to wait, we are also going to take steps, we asked the lawyers of Media Coalition Against Galamsey to help us take all the steps that we need to take," he said on the Super Morning Show on Monday, October 21, 2024.
Joy News' Erastus Asare Donkor and three other journalists were attacked by some ten armed men in Asumenya, a mining community in the Ashanti region where illegal mining is common.
According to Erastus, the armed men kidnapped them and took them to an unknown landmark in one of the mining forests where they were subjected to physical assaults.
Kenneth Ashigbey condemned the act completely and called for the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators.
The perpetrators were identified as workers of Edelmetallum Resources Limited, a mining firm in the community.
However, they were invited by police in the area but they arrogantly refused to visit the police to help assist in the investigation.
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