‘Remove barriers to exploration of virgin lands’

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• Chicken Heads 10 years ago

  Akoayi ka nkwaweasem. This guy is talking trash. Ghana need investors in the manufacturing sector not in areas that promotes primary goods and destroys the environment.

  Akoayi ka nkwaweasem. This guy is talking trash. Ghana need investors in the manufacturing sector not in areas that promotes primary goods and destroys the environment.

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• Make Ghana great again 10 years ago

  Great comment my brother. This fools don't care about the future generations and the environment

  Great comment my brother. This fools don't care about the future generations and the environment

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• Mensah 10 years ago

  a fool like this is Chairman of Mining Commission, and they want 4 more years?

  a fool like this is Chairman of Mining Commission, and they want 4 more years?

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• Asiwome 10 years ago

  What will the children explore? We should be turning our land into virgin land with fruit trees.

  What will the children explore? We should be turning our land into virgin land with fruit trees.

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• Damango 10 years ago

  They are robbing and pillaging state coffers and now robbing our children's future. What's next???

  They are robbing and pillaging state coffers and now robbing our children's future. What's next???

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• Yaw Mensch 10 years ago

  For the selfishness,foolishness, stupidity, ignorance of a few the masses would suffer for years to come.

  For the selfishness,foolishness, stupidity, ignorance of a few the masses would suffer for years to come.

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• ko,no problem,a 10 years ago

  Look at this idiotic stooge of a goat. So far what have we gained from mining as a nation except useless people like him.

  Look at this idiotic stooge of a goat. So far what have we gained from mining as a nation except useless people like him.

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• Hitman UK 10 years ago

  Mr Alhaji this time you get it wrong the foreign company are protecting their green field and you want them to destroy our virgin green field,I am sorry my brother.

  Mr Alhaji this time you get it wrong the foreign company are protecting their green field and you want them to destroy our virgin green field,I am sorry my brother.

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• Nana Egyir Aggrey 10 years ago

  Another educated coconut head without common sense.So long as he gets his kick back/bride from the whiteman,he couldn't careless if the virgin lands are destroyed by the white bastard and the land lord becomes a tenant on his ...
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  Another educated coconut head without common sense.So long as he gets his kick back/bride from the whiteman,he couldn't careless if the virgin lands are destroyed by the white bastard and the land lord becomes a tenant on his God given land.Ghana is blessed with virgin lands,we need to cultivate the land,grow more food to alleviate the hunger in the country and add a value to what the country can export for good money.The world is hungry for good organic food.Think mister C.E.O,many Ghanaians were educated with the sweat of Ghana farmers.Mister C.E.O,-how many people in your village wear jewellery,-gold,silver or copper?Wake up and think,perhaps you can think better if you will swap the white man's suit with your native batakare.You don't sweat in batakare,the intelligent northen politicians in the past always looked graceful and respectful in their batakare.The Kabachawura was one of the great northern leaders.Will somebody tell me what planet this generation of politicians come from.No conscience,no patriotism,no nationalism;they can sell their mothers for peanut,money is only thing they think about.What a shame,Ghana is being governed by a bunch of educated fools without common sense and character.May the good Lord have mercy on us.We don't deserve this,-is it a curse or what?-Nana Egyir Aggrey Snr citizen

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• kwam7 10 years ago

  the ones they mined are still mining, how much has it benefited Gh. nonesence. all this pple are heads of institutions in Gh. useless and selfish talk. go take chop.

  the ones they mined are still mining, how much has it benefited Gh. nonesence. all this pple are heads of institutions in Gh. useless and selfish talk. go take chop.

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• oja fire 10 years ago

  Who the hell are you to suggest that we should destroy our virgin forest for who? Because of the percentage you will received?
  Why most of you in positions in Ghana are so wicked and self centered?
  Asshole Singapore does n ...
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  Who the hell are you to suggest that we should destroy our virgin forest for who? Because of the percentage you will received?
  Why most of you in positions in Ghana are so wicked and self centered?
  Asshole Singapore does not produce any mineral at all but that country is 1000% developed more than Ghana.
  God will pay you all one by one and all of you will die a horrible death because of your mind sets.
  Do you know the amount of money countries are making on Echo Tourism?
  God help Ghana.
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• G. K. Berko 10 years ago

  The Ghana Chamber of Commerce must stipulate under what conditions it wants those barriers removed. The barriers were put there for very good reasons.
  
  It is not just enough that we ought to attract investors into the Mini ...
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  The Ghana Chamber of Commerce must stipulate under what conditions it wants those barriers removed. The barriers were put there for very good reasons.
  
  It is not just enough that we ought to attract investors into the Mining Sector by removing the barriers. How about our environment? How about the loss of our Forests? How about the unprecedented compulsion to import Wood now to meet our local demands? How about the continued neglect of the pollution by the Mining Industry that has turned fatal in many instances? How about the need to raise the local content of the processing to maximize wealth retention from the Industry?
  
  So long as the Ghana Chamber of Commerce keep pushing for only what would swell the pockets of its membership, it would continue to experience equal push-back from more patriotic Ghanaians who have a longer well-being of the Nation at heart.
  
  The near collapse of the Ashanti Gold Mines, for example, is not because of lack of investment for its development and maximization of profits but from the lack of adequate equitable management and supervision to make the most out of the resources extracted from it.
  
  Has the chamber really followed honestly how the Ashanti Gold was sold off, and who stood to benefit most from it and at whose expense?
  
  Obviously, matching in pompous stride with those advocates of laisser-faire Capitalist dogma, the Chamber might feel like champions of Free Market principles in Ghana. But over and over again, many a Developing Nation like Ghana has been dealt with the stick and little to no carrot for following that dogma and selling off all their rights to the so-called investors.
  
  If anything at all, we must seek the investors right here at home in Ghana. The sad realistic story is that any such deferring to the local sources for such investments become a threat to all who want to have our doors wide open and unguarded to allow them bring in the sharks of Capitalism who don't care about nothing other than their profits to share their loot with.
  
  It is under such open-door paradigm that our dubious members of the Chamber could arrange to have most of their own share of the booty stashed abroad in safe havens and never re-invested locally to expand our economy.
  
  Whoever our local partners are to the foreign investors whose would be allowed such unbridled freedom to scour the entrails of our land without any commensurate benefits to the owners of the land and the Nation, we would never see any balanced benefits and plan to preserve our environment, or build wealth that our posterity could rely on for survival.
  
  Let the Chamber present an exhaustive guide to attain their goal while preserving all the benefits we would and deserve to gain from such investments so that the Public could fully assess for its decision.
  
  No more behind-the-walls secret negotiations by any arm or agent of the Government to further plunder our resources. Full transparency is imperative or the Chamber must just look elsewhere to promote its goals of luring in investors.
  
  The Article did not necessarily stipulate that the Chamber was seeking foreign investors. But we know the vibes and understand the innuendos.
  
  Let us see the Chamber of Commerce organize to assemble the needed investment mostly from among our locals, and most Ghanaians might join them in that quest.
  
  Long Live Ghana!!!

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• G. K. Berko 10 years ago

  Please, forgive my American colloquialism and other errors writing mechanics.
  
  I meant to say:
  1). "So long as the Ghana Chamber of Commerce KEEPS pushing for.."
  
  2). " .. who don't care about ANYTHING other than their ...
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  Please, forgive my American colloquialism and other errors writing mechanics.
  
  I meant to say:
  1). "So long as the Ghana Chamber of Commerce KEEPS pushing for.."
  
  2). " .. who don't care about ANYTHING other than their profits to share .."
  
  3). "..are to the foreign investors WHO would be allowed such unbridled freedom.."
  
  4). " ..stipulate that the Chamber was seeking ONLY foreign investors.."

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• Toza 10 years ago

  Prawn headed greedy selfish citizen, his white pay masters have paid him to lobby for the barriers to removed; how much has Ghana gained from the several hundred years of mining in this country-

  Prawn headed greedy selfish citizen, his white pay masters have paid him to lobby for the barriers to removed; how much has Ghana gained from the several hundred years of mining in this country-

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• YKK 10 years ago

  These so-called middle class folks whose only motivation is to exploit everything Ghana can offer will kill us eventually. Destroy all our lands and let our people eat diamonds and drink petroleum.

  These so-called middle class folks whose only motivation is to exploit everything Ghana can offer will kill us eventually. Destroy all our lands and let our people eat diamonds and drink petroleum.

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