{"id":770262,"date":"2019-12-23T11:59:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T11:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/23\/four-community-mines-inaugurated-in-ashanti\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T11:59:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T11:59:20","slug":"four-community-mines-inaugurated-in-ashanti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/23\/four-community-mines-inaugurated-in-ashanti\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Community Mines Inaugurated In Ashanti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FOUR COMMUNITY mines<br \/>\nwith capacity to create about 3,000 jobs each have been inaugurated in the<br \/>\nAshanti Region as part of government\u2019s plans to formalize mining activities in<br \/>\nthe country.<\/p>\n<p>The beneficiary<br \/>\ncommunities include Adansi-Akrofuom, Koben, Mpasatia and Kotokuom in the<br \/>\nAkrofuom and Atwima Nwabiagya South and Atwima Mponua districts respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of\u00a0Environment,<br \/>\nScience, Technology and Innovation, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, who<br \/>\nperformed the inaugural ceremonies, said it was anticipated that each of the<br \/>\ncommunity mines would create 2,000 jobs in their early operations and increase<br \/>\nto 3,000 in subsequent years.<\/p>\n<p>A sizeable number<br \/>\nof people lost their jobs in the three years running up to the ban on all forms<br \/>\nof small-scale mining introduced by government following an outrage from the<br \/>\npublic about the activities of illegal mining on water bodies and the<br \/>\nenvironment.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said<br \/>\nthe community mining programme\u00a0would ensure<br \/>\nresponsible mining, which would be done within the tenets of the law.<\/p>\n<p>According<br \/>\nto him, the miners had been\u00a0trained by government<br \/>\nat the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Tarkwa, to use the required<br \/>\nskills and processes to undertake their activities, pointing out that they had<br \/>\nbeen trained not to use mercury for the extraction of gold.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Frimpong-Boateng<br \/>\ndisclosed that under the new arrangement, the miners would be insured against<br \/>\nrisk and accidents for their operation, and added they would be made to pay<br \/>\ntheir taxes as required by law.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that<br \/>\nthe community mine was owned by the locals and would be managed by a committee<br \/>\nheaded by the District Chief Executive for the day-to-day operation.<\/p>\n<p>He said members<br \/>\nof the committee included the traditional authority, the Member of Parliament,<br \/>\nForestry Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Frimpong-Boateng<br \/>\nrevealed that a monitoring team would be put in place to educate residents on<br \/>\npreservation of land to avoid accident and the misuse of chemicals in mining.<\/p>\n<p>He admonished the<br \/>\nyouth against the use of hard drugs, including cocaine and tramadol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MCE Samuel Amoah<br \/>\nAwuku and DCE William Darko for the areas praised President Akufo-Addo for the<br \/>\nprogramme.<\/p>\n<p>They called on<br \/>\nthe youth to support the programme to succeed, indicating that the community<br \/>\nmines would help reduce unemployment rate in the districts. <\/p>\n<p> <strong>From Ernest Kofi Adu, Nkawie <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng FOUR COMMUNITY mines with capacity to create about 3,000 jobs each have been inaugurated in the Ashanti Region as part of government\u2019s plans to formalize mining activities in the country. 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