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