Vice Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, alias NAPO, insists that the next government under Dr Mahamudu Bawumia will not ban small-scale mining.
Instead, he said the government would empower small-scale miners to engage in responsible mining and expand their operations.
He said this while addressing community members and party supporters at a campaign event in the Manso Adubia constituency in the Ashanti Region on Tuesday, October 7.
NAPO indicated the need to distinguish between responsible, regulated mining and illegal mining activities.