Bill to Revoke LI Allowing Forest Reserve Mining Will Be Submitted to Parliament Soon- Sammy Gyamfi

The Managing Director of the Precious Minerals Marketing Corporation (PMMC), Sammy Gyamfi has announced that the government will be submitting a bill in Parliament to revoke Legislative Instrument (L.I 2462) which mandates mining in Forest Reserves.

According to him, the bill will be submitted as soon as Parliament reconvenes.

“L.I 2462 will be revoked by the NDC/Mahama government immediately Parliament resumes,” Gyamfi stated in an interview on Channel One TV.

Earlier, the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, courted public dissatisfaction when he announced the government was planning rather amen the LI rather than abolish it as was promised to Ghanaians before assuming power.

In his interview, Sammy justified, “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 L.I… but the L. I 2462 is poisonous. It should go in its entirety. Those who made that argument have won. We are a listening government,” he furthered.

Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini