The Chief Government Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, Kenneth Asigbey, has proposed the deployment of nationwide civil servants in geological exploration and mapping actions to strengthen Ghana’s mining sector and extract better worth from the nation’s pure assets.
Talking on the Pleasure Enterprise Roundtable on the theme “Nationalization or Transformation: Rethinking Ghana’s Strategy to Gold Mining, Oil and Essential Minerals”, Mr Asigbey stated the federal government ought to take into account leveraging the nationwide civil service expertise pool constructed up annually to help knowledge technology and useful resource identification throughout the nation.
Based on him, funding in exploration stays vital for Ghana to extend native participation and enhance long-term returns from the mining and minerals business.
“My suggestion to the federal government is that we may ship our nationwide civil servants to the sphere to discover and map to assist us help this space, and that will assist,” he stated.
Asigbay defined that elevated exploration exercise may present useful geological data, enhance useful resource planning and create alternatives for native participation throughout the mining worth chain.
He stated by constructing a stronger base of native technological capabilities, Ghana would be capable to profit extra from its mineral assets whereas attracting sustainable funding within the sector.
This proposal provides to ongoing discussions about how Ghana can remodel its extractive industries by way of native capability constructing, improved worth retention, and insurance policies that help long-term development past useful resource extraction.
