GMWU Commends President Mills

Accra, April 24, GNA - The Ghana Mines workers Union

(GMWU) has commended President John Atta Mills for urging

Anglogold Ashanti to address the degradation of communities

affected by its mining operations.
GMWU said it supported the President's call because it was of

national interest that multinationals use part of their profits to

alleviate the poverty of people in whose areas mining is carried out.

“We express our readiness to team up with government and other

civil society groups to enter into constructive engagement with the

Ghana Chamber of Mines to draw road map towards sustainable

development in mining communities,” said Mr Prince William

Ankrah, General Secretary of the GMWU in an interview with the

GNA.
Mr Ankrah said there was the need for a massive infrastructure

development in the communities, adding that after years of mining

the communities have been left to their fate and that situation must

be reversed.
He said large tracts of land could not be used for farming

and the environment had been degraded because of mining activities.

Mr Ankrah said the union is looking forward to Anglogold

Ashanti's positive response to the Presidents' complaints.

GNA