{"id":96818,"date":"2025-10-03T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=96818"},"modified":"2025-10-03T05:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:51:00","slug":"joynews-uncovers-chinese-backed-galamsey-on-river-bisi-despite-mces-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=96818","title":{"rendered":"JoyNews uncovers Chinese-backed galamsey on River Bisi despite MCE\u2019s denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'>\n                <div class=\"twp-read-time\">\n                \t<i class=\"booster-icon twp-clock\"><\/i> <span>Read Time:<\/span>45 Second                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div><div>\n<p>Evidence gathered by JoyNews has exposed extreme pollution of the Rivers Bisi and Subri, both tributaries of the Tano River, despite denials by the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Tano North, Pious Opoku.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/galamsey-in-Bisi-River.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<p>Following a JoyNews expos\u00e9 of illegal mining at Adrobaa Bisi, a small farming community that hosts these water bodies, the MCE led chiefs upstream to declare that there were no mining activities in the area. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/galamsey-in-Bisi-River1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<p>But a JoyNews follow-up captured footage of Chinese miners and their Ghanaian collaborators engaged in galamsey operations along the River Bisi.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/galamsey-in-Bisi-River4.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<p>The activities have left residents, mostly peasant farmers, angry and desperate. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls 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