The Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), Sammy Gyamfi, has announced the government's intention to revoke the Legislative Instrument (LI) 2462 immediately Parliament resumes from its recess.
He emphasised the current administration's commitment to protecting Ghana's forests from harmful mining practices, labeling the controversial legislation as "poisonous." Speaking on Channel One TV's The Point of View on April 23, 2025, Sammy Gyamfi said, "LI 2462 will be revoked by the NDC/Mahama government immediately Parliament resumes." Sammy Gyamfi further pointed out that there have been various legal perspectives surrounding the issue, adding that some individuals argued for an amendment to the legislation to remove only the discretion power of the president, while others insisted on a full repeal. "There were legal issues as to whether or not it should be amended or revoked because there is a school of thought that revoking it could lead to a certain vacuum and that what had to be cured was the discretion or power given to the president to grant mining leases for people to mine in protected forest zones. "Then there was another school of thought that said, look, let's revoke the entire law, even if we get a vacuum, we can come up with a new LI… but the LI 2462 is poisonous.
It should go in its entirety.
Those who made that argument have won; we are a listening government," he stated.
