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Graphic Online Date: Jul - 02 - 2021 , 15:15 BY: Ama Amankwah Baafi 30.5k Shares 705 The Ghana Mineworkers’ Union (GMWU) has commended government for the passage of the Mineral Development Fund Act 2016 (MDF Act 912) and the setting up of a Secretariat for the fund, all aimed at promoting socio-economic development in the various mining communities in the country. It said the move was a substantial step towards responding to the deteriorating infrastructure and its deficit in those communities. However, it said, the legislative framework was not a panacea to the problems confronting the mining communities. Operational issues At a press conference in Accra on the occasion of the maiden mineworkers’ week celebration, the General Secretary of the GMWU, Mr Mr Abdul-Moomin Gbana, raised some reservations about the operationalisation of the MDF and by extension, the pace of development in mining communities.

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