Nana Obiri Boahen, a former Deputy General Secretary of the NPP, has called for the regularisation of small-scale mining as a measure to control the illegal mining menace in the country.
He expressed his difficulty in appreciating why the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources makes acquisition of legal documents for small-scale mining cumbersome.
Speaking to the politicisation of the illegal mining menace, during a discussion on Okay FM on March 18, 2025, he attributed the messy state of the vegetation and water bodies in the country to the poor regulation of small-scale mining.
In his estimation, if the acquisition of a license for mining is properly regulated and rightly acquired, it would enhance tracking of all actors of the mineral exploration sector. "Government should be proactive in the area of license acquisition.
