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The Asantehene, Otumfou Osei Tutu II, has revealed that the federal government attempted to influence a conversation he had prepared to deliver on the first Ashanti Regional Conversation on Small-Scale Mining within Kumasi.
Speaking at the occasion on Wednesday, May twelve, he said a group from the government visited your pet barely 24 hours to the program to implore him over the things to say in his keynote address.
According to Otumfou, the particular entourage led by the Ashanti Regional Minister and Minster of Lands and Organic Resources, Abu Jinapor, begged him to be considerate not saying anything that would make the authorities unpopular.
The Asantehene, nevertheless , bemoaned the government’s prejudice in tackling the galamsey menace.
He insisted that the score of the people existing at the event know those people who are neck-deep in galamsey that is the more reason government with the chiefs need to take the combat seriously.
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The program marked the particular commencement of the Regional Consultative Dialogue on Small Size Mining which seeks to create together stakeholders within the exploration sector to deliberate upon effective ways of ensuring little scale mining is done with out causing damage to the nation’s drinking water bodies and forest supplies.
The Regional Dialogue comes after the recently held Nationwide Dialogue on Small-Scale Exploration in Accra from 04 14 to 15, 2021, which was opened by Leader Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
