Vice President and Flagbearer for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has committed to guarantee complete Ghanaian ownership of mineral resources in the event of being elected into power.
During his inaugural regional tour, commencing in the Eastern Region, Dr. Bawumia expressed his dedication, which stems from his observation that the current framework of Ghana’s mining industry creates the impression that Ghanaians do not possess complete ownership of the country’s mineral resources.
Dr. Bawumia pledged this commitment during talks with religious figures on April 29, 2024, as part of his first regional tour, commencing in the Eastern Region.
I am going to refocus our paradigm for natural resource management. For the most part, Ghana has not maximized the benefits of our natural resources. Since the days of the Portuguese in the 15th century, gold has always been taken out of Ghana. We haven’t benefitted much from our natural resources; I am going to change that paradigm. I am going to bring a bigger focus on ownership of our natural resources. It is as if right now we don’t own our natural resources. I believe that if we do the exploration; and we are going to empower our universities and the geological service department to do the exploration, once we explore that we have seven gold belts that we haven’t yet discovered. Once we have explored and we know that the gold is here, the new policy is going be that the ownership of those resources will be one hundred percent owned by Ghanaians.
Dr. Bawumia also guaranteed that the existing power difficulties will be resolved in the near future.
I know that there are challenges and I don’t want to paper over economic challenges. We are going to work on them. Currently, we have issues with power but I say that from the information I have received from the minister for energy, those power challenges will very soon, and I mean very soon be a thing of the past.
