Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Wednesday February 12, 2025, inaugurated an 18-member technical committee chaired by Professor Martin Oteng-Ababio to develop a blueprint to reform and sanitise the mining sub-sector.
The Committee is tasked to review the current state of the mining sector and provide recommendations to reform the sector towards ensuring sustainable national development.
It has a two-week ultimatum (February 27,2025) to present its final report to the lands minister to enable the government to implement recommendations for reforms in the mining sector.
Buah inaugurated the committee together with Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed, the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation (MESTI) at the Ministry's premises in Accra.