Bawumia promises 100% Ghanaian ownership of natural resources

Mahamudu Bawumia, has pledged to ensure that Ghanaians own 100 percent of the country's mineral resources if elected as President of the Republic.

Bawumia stated that his administration would focus on a paradigm shift in the country's natural resource management and ownership through a policy framework to ensure that Ghanaians maximize benefits from their mineral endowment.

For the most part, Ghana has not maximized the benefits of our natural resources.

We haven’t benefited much from our natural resources; I am going to change that paradigm.

I am going to bring a bigger focus on the ownership of our natural resources.

"It is as if right now we don’t own our natural resources.

"Once we have explored and we know that the gold is here, the new policy is going to be that the ownership of those resources will be one hundred percent owned by Ghanaians," Dr.