120 Days : President Mahama outlines 5 Prong Strategy Launched to Overhaul Mining Sector
President of the Republic of Ghana H.E John Dramani Mahama has revealed that within first 120 days, his government has taken decisive action through a five prong strategy to overhaul and sanitize the mining sector.
President Mahama stated that, a five-prong strategy implemented over the first 120 days to reform and clean up the mining Sector includes; regulatory reforms and strengthening the law enforcement, Joint Task Forces arrests and seizures of mining equipment, stakeholder collaboration, reclamation of degraded lands.
President Mahama emphasized that, Seven out of nine forest reserves have been reclaimed. Illegal miners have been flushed out of these forest reserves concerning the ban on mining and forest reserves.
“ On March 20, 2025, legislative instrument LI 2462, was presented to Parliament to amend the Environmental Protection mining and forest reserves regulation. This amendment removes the president’s power to grant approval for mining and forest reserves, a plan also to amend the minerals and mining act 2003 act 703 to completely prohibit mining and forest reserves.” He added.
According to President Mahama, this would effectively, meticulously, legally and entirely ban mining in our forest reserves.
President Mahama cited , The Ministry of lands and Natural Resources has launched the Blue Water Initiative to restore our water bodies in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, this initiative aims to train and deploy Blue Water guards to monitor and protect critical water bodies and prevent further pollution.
“At the same time, experts are working to clean up our polluted rivers. The tree for life reforestation initiative was also launched on March 21 2025 to restore degraded lands and combat climate change.” President stressed.
He noted , the project aims to plant over 20 million seedlings annually nationwide, including through the one child per policy to inculcate environmental consciousness in our use.
