Private legal practitioner Kojo Anan Ankomah has questioned the rationale behind the government issuing licences to companies to mine.
Okudzeto Ablakwa disclosed in a post shared via social media that several licenses have been released for companies to mine amid the calls for an end to illegal mining, which has destroyed water bodies and forest reserves in the country.
But in a post shared via social media, Kojo Anan Ankomah, who is a lawyer, questioned how these companies get their licences considering they have to get parliamentary approval before they can start mining.
He argues that if the companies receiving the licences did not do so with Parliamentary approval, then they are engaged in galamsey and need to be dealt with.