Vice President Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia is expected to open a day National Consultative Dialogue on Small-Scale Mining in Tamale on Monday, 19th July 2021.
This follows similar ones held in Accra and Kumasi and Tamale`s Dialogue will be under the theme “Sustainable Small-Scale Mining for National Development” and it will be held at the University for Development Studies, Multipurpose Auditorium.
It will bring together representatives from the Ghana Association of Small-Scale Miners and Ghana Chamber of Mines, chiefs from the regions, members of Parliament, and the National House of Chiefs, among other stakeholders.
Under the auspices of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources of the Government of Ghana, a National Consultative Dialogue on Small Scale Mining was held from 14th to 15th April 2021 at the Accra International Conference Centre, under the vision of the President of the Republic, H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to organize a national discourse to solicit diverse views to develop appropriate policy options for the small scale mining subsector.
Present at the Dialogue, which was opened by the President of the Republic, H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was the Minister responsible for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Samuel A. Jinapor MP, and other relevant Ministers of State, duly mandated representatives of Ministries, Departments and Agencies, Commissions, and Authorities.
The Dialogue resolved that similar consultations should be held in all mining regions and districts of our country. Further to that, other public relations tools should be employed to generate overwhelming public support for the national policy on small-scale mining, as above stated.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
