The NPP’s flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has assured the residents of Obuasi West that he will establish community mining initiatives if elected to office.
These community mining initiatives, as stated by Dr. Bawumia, are intended to promote responsible mining practices among miners in the Obuasi region.
He made these remarks while speaking to party supporters in the Obuasi West constituency on November 12, highlighting that Obuasi is primarily a mining community. In his address to party members, Dr. Bawumia emphasized the importance of these initiatives.
We are bringing a new arrangement, community mining schemes, areas where the whites are not using, we will negotiate with them and then begin to use it. We are going to allow the Geological Survey Authority to show us where the minerals are then we will set up the community mining schemes in those areas.
We are bringing the Minerals Development Bank that will help you procure equipment to do proper mining. We are going to do responsible mining, and this will help you to get more money and become millionaires.
In a related development, the flagbearer has emphasized that, in spite of the prevailing global challenges, the NPP has outperformed the NDC. He stated that the NPP administration has generated a greater number of jobs and established more industries compared to the NDC administration.
Notwithstanding COVID and other crisis, every sector of the economy we have performed better than the NDC. We have created more jobs, we have built more roads, more railway, more airports, more schools, more hospitals, more libraries, more sanitation facilities, more jobs, more industry. More factories, more Zongo development, all of that. Every sector of the economy, we have done more than the NDC.
