The CEO of Ghana's Minerals Commission, Isaac Andrews Tandoh, has made a bold case for greater Ghanaian control over the country's mineral wealth.
Speaking on Joy News' PM Express Business Edition on Thursday, April 17, he declared that 30-year mining leases must not become permanent arrangements that rob Ghanaians of true ownership. "There hasn't been a policy for nationalisation," Tandoh clarified, "unlike our neighbours Burkina Faso and Mali. "But what we are pushing for is indigenisation, so that Ghanaians benefit from our resources.
So that our infrastructure benefits.
That's our focus." His remarks follow the government's dramatic takeover of Gold Fields' Damang mine after it rejected the South African company's bid to renew its mining lease.
