Mining companies kick against adjusted ground rent

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• Eli 12 years ago

  Isn't this a shame? How can Ghanaians allow this to happen to us? I think it needs a further upward adjustment. These mining companies are just ripping the country off and end up destroying our environment. We need to sit up ...
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  Isn't this a shame? How can Ghanaians allow this to happen to us? I think it needs a further upward adjustment. These mining companies are just ripping the country off and end up destroying our environment. We need to sit up as a country.

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• DAN 12 years ago

  do what you did when price of gold reduced, STOP...Sell your assets to another company

  do what you did when price of gold reduced, STOP...Sell your assets to another company

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• Patriotic Akan and Citizen of Akanlan 12 years ago

  Ghana is officially a "Failed State" as of 29th August 2013 and will soon become "Somalia".
  
  I urge all Akan people of South Ghana to immediately create a Independent new Akan country out of Brong-Ahafo region, Ashanti regi ...
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  Ghana is officially a "Failed State" as of 29th August 2013 and will soon become "Somalia".
  
  I urge all Akan people of South Ghana to immediately create a Independent new Akan country out of Brong-Ahafo region, Ashanti region, Eastern region, Central region, Western region and Greater Accra region only for the Akan people with all the "Akan Gold, Minerals, Oil/Petroleum, Cocoa" and call the Akan country "Akanland" ("Akan Republic") because the "NDC and fucking thief election vote fraudster John Dramani Mahama (

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• Okoe 12 years ago

  THIS GUY IS GOING BUNKERS. YOU ARE NOT SERIOUS. YOU JUST JOKING RIGHT?

  THIS GUY IS GOING BUNKERS. YOU ARE NOT SERIOUS. YOU JUST JOKING RIGHT?

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• Proud to a northerner 12 years ago

  you are very very stupid ! Akanland my ass, go ahead, you think everything is about north and south. can u hear yourself speak. So at your age, this is myopic behavior is still in you. If it is paining you a northerner is the ...
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  you are very very stupid ! Akanland my ass, go ahead, you think everything is about north and south. can u hear yourself speak. So at your age, this is myopic behavior is still in you. If it is paining you a northerner is the president of this land, jump into the see. a pure blockhead! that is what you.who gives a rat's ass about you. you say Ghana is a failed state, you are rather a failed son of a bitch.

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• Obenfo 12 years ago

  Ghanaians have traveled extensively, so let's ask among ourselves if there is any Ghanaian traveler who can take the laws of the foreign land into his/her own hands and venture with the foreign governments property.
  
  It's ...
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  Ghanaians have traveled extensively, so let's ask among ourselves if there is any Ghanaian traveler who can take the laws of the foreign land into his/her own hands and venture with the foreign governments property.
  
  It's so sad and heart-breaking when you read some of these articles. Why do we Ghanaians sometimes allow ourselves to be treated so unfairly and stupidly in our own land.
  
  I guess the shackles of slavery are still hanging around our necks invisibly.

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• Disappointed 12 years ago

  The real issue is how was this miss-administered for so many years?
  People should be accountable.

  The real issue is how was this miss-administered for so many years?
  People should be accountable.

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• Okoe 12 years ago

  MY FEEL IS THAT THE GOVERNMENT AND THE LEGISLATURE IN GENERAL MUST STAND UP AND DEMAND THE FARE SHARE OF EQUITABLE PAYMENTS FROM ALL MINING AND OTHER RESOURCE ENTERPRISES. GHANAIANS ARE BEING TAKEN AS TOO PASSIVE HENCE ALL MA ...
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  MY FEEL IS THAT THE GOVERNMENT AND THE LEGISLATURE IN GENERAL MUST STAND UP AND DEMAND THE FARE SHARE OF EQUITABLE PAYMENTS FROM ALL MINING AND OTHER RESOURCE ENTERPRISES. GHANAIANS ARE BEING TAKEN AS TOO PASSIVE HENCE ALL MANNER OF PERSONS JUST HIJACKING THE INDUSTRY AND WE LOOK ON AND AMAZED. OUR PARLIAMENT TO RISE UP AND BE COUNTED!!!

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• Concerned 12 years ago

  Ghana is now famous for increasing a fee by 1.8 million %, not something to really want to be famous for.
  If adopted as originally drafted, it would theoretically have raised hundreds of millions of dollars and ended the ind ...
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  Ghana is now famous for increasing a fee by 1.8 million %, not something to really want to be famous for.
  If adopted as originally drafted, it would theoretically have raised hundreds of millions of dollars and ended the industry within 12 months and destroyed the reputation of the country. Is that good?

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