{
  "id": 16575118,
  "title": "Officials could face abetment liability for allowing unlicensed mining – Prof Appiagyei-Atua on GoldBod CEO’s comment",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/officials-could-face-abetment-liability-for-allowing-unlicensed",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-26T07:46:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Adom Online",
    "slug": "adom-online",
    "url": "https://www.adomonline.com/officials-could-face-abetment-liability-for-allowing-unlicensed-mining-prof-appiagyei-atua-on-goldbod-ceos-comment/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Officials who direct that unlicensed mining be allowed could face liability for abetting a criminal offence, Professor Appiagyei-Atua has warned. The Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Ghana School of Law raised the concern in an opinion article responding to comments attributed to the Chief Executive Officer of GoldBod, Sammy […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "3News",
        "title": "GoldBod rejects claim CEO Sammy Gyamfi endorsed illegal mining",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/goldbod-rejects-claim-ceo-sammy-gyamfi-endorsed-illegal-mining",
        "published": "2026-10-25T09:01:15.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
        "title": "GoldBod CEO’s comment: Allowing unlicensed mining breaches the law – Prof Appiagyei-Atua",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/goldbod-ceos-comment-allowing-unlicensed-mining-breaches-the-law-prof",
        "published": "2026-10-25T22:31:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}