The Ministry of Lands in addition to Natural Resources (MLNR) has refuted accusations by the Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC) Person in Parliament (MP) for Tamale Northern, Alhassan Suhuyini, that will the ministry got spent GH¢10m upon conferences in relation to the particular fight against unlawful mining popularly identified as galamsey. The statement issued with the Public Relations Device in the MLNR refused the allegations, talking about them as “false minus factual basis”.
According in order to the MNLR, using a call by Leader Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in 2021 for a nationwide dialogue to assist address the risk of galamsey, typically the ministry organized some sort of series of workshops. The first, that said, was definitely a two-day countrywide consultative dialogue in against the law mining presented with the Accra Foreign Conference Centre via April 14-15, 2021. The dialogue, that said, produced some sort of 15-point resolution, which will included the requirement to carry similar dialogues throughout all the fourth there’s 16 regions.
“As some sort of way of after much thought. managing the people purse, the ministry adopted a tactic to bring along the regions together with retain the dialogues in a zonal time frame. Accordingly, two local dialogues were organized in Kumasi for any forest zone together with Tamale for typically the savannah zone. Throughout addition to typically the dialogues, the ministry undertook a doing work visit to the many sixteen (16) areas of the country, just where it engaged different stakeholders to get support to combat illegitimate mining, the particular statement said.
This said the stakeholders engaged by the particular ministry included the particular Council of Express, the National Residence of Chiefs, the particular Regional Houses regarding Chiefs, Regional Ministers, Regional Security Local authorities, the Ghana Holding chamber of Mines, Ghana National Association regarding Small Scale Miners (GNASSM), civil modern society organizations in the particular mining sector in addition to miners. “All these types of meetings were completely funded by the particular ministry. The ministry also provided several funding for your Local Security Councils, in order to assist in the particular combat galamsey, ” the statement extra.
The particular statement also described that apart coming from the dialogues, the particular MLNR, in relationship with GNASSM, started a Small Size Miners Award Structure, meant to motivate small-scale miners in order to mine in a new responsible and eco friendly manner. Once again, it said since apart of the particular combat illegitimate exploration, the ministry likewise revamped community exploration schemes, provided a lot more funding to the particular Minerals Commission in addition to introduced measures in order to promote mercury-free rare metal katcha.
“All these types of form part regarding the ministry’s expenses on the overcome illegitimate mining. On the appropriate time, their state agencies charged together with auditing the company accounts of the ministry will perform their job as mandated simply by law, and take those appropriate actions when any wrongdoing is usually detected, ” the particular statement said.
