I’ve not called for lifting of six-month ban on mining – Tony Aubyn

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• Bbb. 8 years ago

  This man Aubyn is a double standard lizard and must be replaced as soon as possible if Ghanaians want to eliminate galamsey.

  This man Aubyn is a double standard lizard and must be replaced as soon as possible if Ghanaians want to eliminate galamsey.

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• Direct Source 8 years ago

  Do you have to wait to be fired? GO!

  Do you have to wait to be fired? GO!

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• TAVIE 8 years ago

  Tony Aubyn NEED TO GO AND THIS MAN IS PART OF THE PROBLEM AND HAVE STASH SO MUCH MONEY. TAKE A LOOK AT HIS BELLY AND JAW TOO MUCH GREED NEED TO GO

  Tony Aubyn NEED TO GO AND THIS MAN IS PART OF THE PROBLEM AND HAVE STASH SO MUCH MONEY. TAKE A LOOK AT HIS BELLY AND JAW TOO MUCH GREED NEED TO GO

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• Amina 8 years ago

  If we don't find out what went wrong how can we deal with this cancer in our society. The commission granted concessions and allot lands so if we have foreigners mining illegally for 20 years and you don't know then tell us w ...
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  If we don't find out what went wrong how can we deal with this cancer in our society. The commission granted concessions and allot lands so if we have foreigners mining illegally for 20 years and you don't know then tell us why you should not be removed

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• nii okai 8 years ago

  Otherwise why didn't he do anything about illegal mining until now? He had the power and responsibility to stop illegal mining. Yet for all these years, he looked the other way, while our country was destroyed by Chinese, Ukr ...
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  Otherwise why didn't he do anything about illegal mining until now? He had the power and responsibility to stop illegal mining. Yet for all these years, he looked the other way, while our country was destroyed by Chinese, Ukrainians, Nigerians, Russians, Burkinabes, Czecks, Indians, Slovaks, etc. Ghanaians are convinced Tony Aubyn benefitted financially from the devastation that we are now suffering. He must do the honourable and resign immediately. Otherwise he must be sacked by the president.

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• FACT 8 years ago

  You are signing off on the licenses for that gross irresponsibility without a care in the world.
  How much did they give you and which one(s) are you behind and fronting?

  You are signing off on the licenses for that gross irresponsibility without a care in the world.
  How much did they give you and which one(s) are you behind and fronting?

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• Kofi Thompson 8 years ago

  If honest and patriotic journalists accompany equally honest and patriotic officials from the Minerals Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Water Resources Commission, to inspect the operations of all the l ...
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  If honest and patriotic journalists accompany equally honest and patriotic officials from the Minerals Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Water Resources Commission, to inspect the operations of all the legally registered small-scale mining companies across the nation, not a single one of them will escape being slapped with an order to cease their operations immediately.
  
  All those companies without exception mine gold far in excess of the 25-acre limits imposed on them, and use their documentation to fraudulently cover illegal mining operations on land in other areas away from their concessions that they buy from desperately poor farmers for peanuts.
  
  If the minister for lands and natural resources, Hon John Peter Amewu, and the media come to my family's 14-square mile freehold upland evergreen rainforest property at the Akyem Juaso section of the Atewa Range, for example, I shall show them all the evidence on the ground they need to enable them to understand clearly just how crooked and thoroughly dishonest the entire small-scale good mining sector actually is.
  
  Hon John Peter Amewu and the media accompanying him, will also understand why we must ban all surface gold mining in Ghana once and for all, because it poses a threat to the well-being of our nation and its people.
  
  The nonsense about job creation by small-scale miners that is bandied about by them is just that: pure nonsense on bamboo stilts.
  
  The plain truth is that they are callously exploiting poor rural dwellers and knowingly exposing them to carcinogenic heavy metals and other toxic chemicals. That is immoral and callous in the extreme.
  
  Finally, when the Hon Amewu and the media in Ghana see the amazing beauty of our family's freehold upland evergreen rainforest property, they will understand how when the world's longest forest canopy walkway (1000 metres long with 19 bridges) we will be building there soon, will create a sustainable local green economy that will bring real wealth and jobs galore to the residents of Akyem Juaso, Akyem Saamang and Akyem Osino, till the very end of time.
  
  Yet, Hagnela Mining Company, and its assigns, fraudulently using documentation issued by regulatory bodies - for a concession in a different area of forest away from our property,which should never have been given out as concessions in the first place, if the Fanteakwa District Assembly's regulatory bodies were doing their work properly and honestly - as a cloak to hide the fact that they were engaged in illegal gold mining operations on our family's freehold land in partnership with my criminally-minded cousin Kwame Thompson, our corrupt Abusuapanin Mr. Bampoe and our now dismissed overseer, the big-thief John Awuku, alias "Red."
  
  Such a visit will show the minister and the Ghanaian media accompanying him, why it would be extremely stupid on the part of Ghanaians to sit unconcerned and let greedy and selfish people who do not care one jot about the effect of their actions on their fellow humans, and on forests and delicate ecosystems across Ghana, to destroy what is left of our nation's natural heritage.
  
  Last year (2016) Thailand earned an astonishing US$71 billion from 31 million visitors. Imagine that.
  
  Could we not earn even a quarter of that figure if we build an ecotourism industry anchored on what is left of our nation's natural heritage - and create wealth that stays in rural Ghana and jobs galore for our youngwr generations too, I ask?
  
  We must ban all surface gold mining in Ghana - a foolish and dangerous policy idea forced on the hapless Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) regime by the World Bank in the 1980s: because they knew it would take the already-high net worth of the shareholders of Western gold mining companies to stratospheric heights and make them even more super-rich from regular dividend payments from those gold mining companies destroying our natural heritage.
  
  The price we have paid as a people over the decades in terms of the destruction of most of our nation's natural heritage has simply not been worth it.
  
  We must end this abomination once and for all. Haaba!
  
  
  
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• FACT 8 years ago

  This guy must be fired, we repeat, this guy must be fired at all cost to get a conscious, well-grounded, intelligent, committed, focused and patriotic Ghanaian who understands the stakes of Ghana and Africa's development to r ...
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  This guy must be fired, we repeat, this guy must be fired at all cost to get a conscious, well-grounded, intelligent, committed, focused and patriotic Ghanaian who understands the stakes of Ghana and Africa's development to run the Minerals Commission.
  Fire him, fire this guy.

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• KSK 8 years ago

  Oh so government fears Aubyn?.He is sabotaging the effort to ban galamsey. He has benefited immensely & wants it to continue.His dismissal will help the fight immensely.

  Oh so government fears Aubyn?.He is sabotaging the effort to ban galamsey. He has benefited immensely & wants it to continue.His dismissal will help the fight immensely.

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• Kweku 8 years ago

  It was the useless Minerals Commission , as regulator, that encouraged? and promoted SURFACE MINING in forest reserves and farmlands in Ghana. Now, look at what the advanced form of surface mining in the form of galamsey has ...
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  It was the useless Minerals Commission , as regulator, that encouraged? and promoted SURFACE MINING in forest reserves and farmlands in Ghana. Now, look at what the advanced form of surface mining in the form of galamsey has created in Ghana. Well- informed researchers spoke against this but the Minerals Commission never listened because of greed and dishonesty.As a regulator, you also allowed small scale miners to use EXCAVATORS in their mining activities and the commission never enforced its laws with the excuse that they don't have prosecutorial powers. Now, how do we stop this menace in the country?

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• Concern citizen 8 years ago

  Why is this guy still at his post .????

  Why is this guy still at his post .????

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• Newsite Bansah 8 years ago

  Why is Tony Aubyn still head of the minerals commission?? He should have been fired long ago. Unless he knows too much and some people in high places are afraid? He oversaw the carnage we are seeing today and he has not repe ...
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  Why is Tony Aubyn still head of the minerals commission?? He should have been fired long ago. Unless he knows too much and some people in high places are afraid? He oversaw the carnage we are seeing today and he has not repented. He is still very sympathetic to the galamseyers. Just recently he declared that galamsey has ended though he had no shred of proof. And now he wants to discourage talk of a moratorium on small scale mining. Please, please sack him!!!

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