Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has warned that Ghana’s forest reserves will be a no-go area for individuals seeking to carry out mining activities under the next NDC government.
He emphasised that the exploration of mineral resources must not come at the expense of preserving the country’s vegetative cover.
He pledged to promote responsible mining and ensure that water bodies polluted by illegal mining activities are restored to their previous state.
Making the remarks during a public lecture at the Christian Service University in Kumasi, the former president said the country’s forest reserves are more precious than any minerals that lie underneath them and will not tolerate any actions that will deplete them.
“I will ban all mining in forest reserves because I believe that many of the trees in the reserves, which are more than 700 years old, are more precious assets than any mineral that lies beneath them.”
—CitiNewsroom
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My goodness. Is this man just fresh from the moon? Was this man not the Vice President in 2019-2012 and President from 2012 to 2016? Was he blind not to see galamseyers he through the Ndc imported into the country mining seriously in the forest? Or was it because it would have affected his interest? Hmmmmmmm dishonesty at the highest level.