{"id":178128,"date":"2024-05-03T14:13:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T14:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/03\/ill-make-small-scale-miners-millionaires\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T14:13:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T14:13:01","slug":"ill-make-small-scale-miners-millionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/03\/ill-make-small-scale-miners-millionaires\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll make small-scale miners millionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has pledged to transform small-scale miners into millionaires if elected president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Addressing a group of small-scale miners in the Western Region as part of his Nationwide Tour, the vice president outlined plans to\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">revolutionize<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> the mining sector to<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> benefit<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> local miners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">emphasised<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0the establishment of community mining schemes in abandoned shafts and\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the exploration of<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0new mining sites to create jobs and wealth for citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWe will talk to the big mining companies; abandoned shafts, we will open them as community mining schemes for our people, and the new places\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">that<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0we will discover<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, we<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0will open them.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0We will create jobs for our people, we will make you millionaires\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0we will make you rich<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, that<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0is what we are going to do,\u201d he declared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">However, the promise has been met with scepticism by some small-scale miners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Michael Kojo Peprah, President of the Small-Scale Miners Association, dismissed Bawumia\u2019s pledge as political rhetoric.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He pointed out the hardships\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">faced by small-scale miners<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0under the current government, including a one-year ban on their sector and the controversial Operation Vanguard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI think he is just trying to lie to us. We became\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">very poor<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> when his government came into power. That was when they placed a one-year ban on our sector. We were in this country when the government started burning excavators when they brought about this operation Vanguard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cHe<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> was the vice president. Joe Osei Owusu told us in this country to shoot to kill small-scale miners. He never did or said anything to console us. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We were here when excavators flew from Ghana into our neighbouring countries<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, he<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0never said anything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cSo if you have about eight months to redeem whatever your government has done <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0you\u2019ve not been able to do it, and you come back to tell us that you want to make us\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">millionaires<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> then we take what he said as a joke<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.\u201d<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em><strong>Explore the world of impactful news with CitiNewsroom on WhatsApp!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Click on the link to join the Citi Newsroom channel for curated, meaningful stories tailored just for YOU:\u00a0https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCYzPRAYlUPudDDe53x<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>No spams, just the stories that truly matter! #StayInformed #CitiNewsroom #CNRDigital<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has pledged to transform small-scale miners into millionaires if elected president. Addressing a group of small-scale miners in the Western Region as part of his Nationwide Tour, the vice president outlined plans to\u00a0revolutionize the mining sector to benefit local miners.\u00a0 He\u00a0emphasised\u00a0the establishment of community mining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I&#039;ll make small-scale miners millionaires - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/03\/ill-make-small-scale-miners-millionaires\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I&#039;ll make small-scale miners millionaires - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has pledged to transform small-scale miners into millionaires if elected president. 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