Frederick Opare-Ansah, the campaign manager for Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has stated that the NPP flagbearer is committed to empowering small-scale miners to own businesses within the mining value chain.
Dr Bawumia has pledged to transform small-scale miners into millionaires if he is elected as president.
During his Nationwide Tour on Friday, he addressed a group of small-scale miners in the Western Region and outlined his plans to revolutionise the mining sector in a way that benefits local miners.
He highlighted the establishment of community mining schemes in abandoned shafts and the exploration of new mining sites as strategies to create jobs and generate wealth for citizens.
In a conversation with Nana Tuffour Boateng on Citi FM‘s Eyewitness News on Friday, Mr Opare-Ansah said the Vice President plans to set up a bank to finance the country’s mineral exploitation activities.
The campaign manager for Dr Bawumia explained that this initiative would enable miners to conduct prospecting independently, positioning them to own businesses that could potentially make them millionaires and billionaires.
“What Dr Bawumia has said is that he is going to set up a bank for financing our mineral exploitation activity and that way locals will be able to access funds to be able to do prospecting on their own. And so when we find these resources it is not going to be owned by any foreign person or entity they will be owned 100% by Ghanaians.
Fancy the mines owned by the Newmont and other entities were owned 100% by Ghanaians, won’t these persons be millionaires?… So if the Vice President is bringing in policies to ensure that Ghanaians will have ownership of these businesses, then clearly they are going to become millionaires and billionaires,” he stated.
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