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CMS will create 2000 jobs – Mireku Duker reveals

A Community Mining Scheme (CMS) has been inaugurated at Mfante in the Ahafo Ano North Municipality to help create more jobs and promote safer ways of mining.

Date Created : 3/3/2022 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Susana Danso/Ghanadistricts.com

Mr. George Mireku Duker, the Deputy Minister of Lands in charge of Mining, speaking at the inaugural ceremony disclosed that, the scheme will create 2000 direct jobs and will positively affect economic activities in the municipality.

He re-echoed government’s position that the Community Mining Scheme which is a substitute of the canker called illegal mining guarantees more benefits to the community than galamsey, adding that the Community Mining Scheme employs a safer method of harvesting gold as it does not make use of the destructive element of mercury.

The minister applauded the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Mr. Samuel A. Jinapor for the initiative and explained that, like all the CMS set ups, experts will be deployed to ensure that the measures stipulated in the act that regulates small-scale mining are duly adhered to.

He also appealed to the traditional leaders and community to support government’s fight against the galamsey operations.

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the area, Mrs. Martina Appiah Nyantekyi described it as a welcoming development for the municipality and warned against illegal mining.

She also stressed that the scheme could lead to a turnaround in the economic fortunes of the community hence requires the support of persons and institutions within the municipality.