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  Seasoned journalist, Kwesi Pratt has backed the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor to curb illegal mining (galamsey) that has become the bane of the economy. The Minister, during a two-day National Consultative Dialogue on Small Scale Mining, cautioned against illegal mining stressing sanctions and penalties imposed by the Minerals and Mining (Amendment) Act, 2019 (Act 995) should be applied to all those who infringed the law, irrespective of political colour, socio-economic status or class. In a communiqué, Hon. Abu Jinapor charged all political parties, stak...

  A former minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr. Inusah Fuseini, says although mining contributes to the development of the country, it must not be done to the detriment of the environment. According to him, unregulated small-scale mining destroyed the environment, polluted water bodies and posed health challenges to the people in areas they were done. "Past governments have attempted to deal with small-scale mining, all with little success; the recent one was the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Small-Scale Mining," he said. Mr. Fuseini said this when he chaired the first plenary sessi...

MP for Madina Constituency, Lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu Member of Parliament (MP) for Medina Constituency, Lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu, has called on President Akufo-Addo to be proactive in the fight against corruption and to “desist from fighting anti-corruption institutions and the use of security apparatus to intimidate independent journalists who seek to expose corruption in the performance of their duties.” The call was in response to President Akufo-Addo’s remarks and actions over the years pertaining to the fight against corruption in the country. On Wednesday April 14, 2021, Pesi...

Graphic Online BY: Emmanuel Bonney 705 Discussants at a plenary session of the National Consultative Dialogue on Small-Scale Mining have identified the lack of enforcement of laws against unregulated mining as one of the key factors responsible for illegal mining across the country. They said influence in the work of institutions regulating the mining sector was another factor. The discussants were a representative of the Media Coalition Against Galamsey, Nii Laryea Sowah; a representative of the Ministerial Committee to Develop a Blueprint for Small Scale Mining, Mr Benjamin Aryee; the acti...

+ President Akufo-Addo for two days held a national consultative dialogue in his attempt to build a political consensus against illegal mining as a way of intensifying the fight against galamsey. All political parties that participated in the 2020 elections were invited to be part of the dialogue that began on April 14, together with 16 other groups, with the hopes that they can agree on a common position against illegal mining and take needed steps to tackle it. The event took place at the Accra International Conference Center. Below is the final communique from the event: FINAL COMMUNIQUE U...