Ghanaians can apply and get mining license with their phones at the comfort of their homes –Dr. Krugu
The National Coordinator for Ghana Landscape Restoration and Small Scale Mining Project (GLRSSMP) Dr. John Kingsley Krugu has said, the era cumbersome and difficult process of acquiring a mining license is gone. Speaking on Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Apexnews Ghana’s flagship developmental programme dubbed “SPEAKOUT UPPER EAST” on Tuesday, September 27, 2022, the Dr. Krugu, the move is a long-term sustainable intervention that the government brought on board. Giving little history the how it started, Dr. said: “If you remember when his Excellency took in his second term, he called for a national dialogue, and Hon. Samuel Abu Jinapor took it up and organize those dialogue and one of the key findings that came out of that dialogue was that a lot of people want to get licenses to do small-scale mining but because the process of getting those licenses are cumbersome and difficult, which is one of the reasons people will go and do it illegal and if you look at it, it makes sense that Stephen, if you were to wake up one day and they tell you behind your back yard there is gold and you need money and then, you looked at this gold and somebody say no, you have to go through a very long process in order to get a license to back and mine that gold, I think rationally, what you would do is to get a pickaxe and start digging. So, that finding came out from the national dialogue and the regional dialogue”. He said: “one of the orders that were given to us is to simplify the process of Ghanaians getting a license. The interesting thing is that small-scale mining is only the preserve of Ghanaians. No foreigner can get a small-scale mining license. So, the demand we have was to work out to simplify that process so that every single Ghanaian who wants to engage in small-scale mining activities can get the license and once you get the license, then you come under the regulation of the Mineral Commission, you come under the regulation of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), you come under the supervision of Water Resources Commission and all of that will prevent what we are seeing and we are not all happy”. We have worked to already simplify that, the Mineral Commission has done a very fantastic job and with support from my office, recently I was in Bolga where we trained small-scale miners on how any Ghanaian can sit in the comfort of their home as long as they have access to the internet whether, on their phone or laptop, they can apply and get a license and do mining.Right now as we speak, you can go to the Mineral Commission website, there is a link called the MINING CADASTRE ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM (MCAS) and if you click it, it will take you to a place that says APPLY. He explained “When we finish this, one more step and we call it a one-stop shop. We want to put the EPA, Water Resources, and Mineral Commission all on that Common platform. So, in the future, there will be no need of carrying files from one Agency to another. All of that discourages people from doing the right thing”. He revealed So, that is the kind of long-term sustainable intervention that the government is doing, with a such move, in 10 years’ time, we don’t need to come back and talk about the issue we are talking about. Source: Apexnewsgh.com|Ghana For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com
Bolga: Midwifery students laments, says in 2022 there is nothing like allowance
Students at the Bolgatanga Midwifery Training College (BMTC) have lamented that the government of NPP has refused to honor its promises of paying their monthly allowance. The students also complained that for the year 2022, the allowance that they mostly relied on to help cater for themselves hasn’t been paid. This was revealed In Bolgatanga on Saturday, October 1, 2022, at a ceremony organized by the Regional Youth wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to welcome fresh students at Bolgatanga Midwifery Training College This account was given by students during freshers’ welcome to the NDC intellectual wing TEIN: “Since we came, the first allowance they gave us was 3 months allowance, followed by 2 months allowance. We are supposed to take 10 months out of 12 months and they gave us only 5 months. Recently, they came and gave us 3 months making it 8 months out of 12 months”. They said, from the beginning of 2022 till date, the allowance of 2022 hasn’t hit their Ezwich account. “In 2022, there is nothing like an allowance. So, is like the promise they made is not regular”. Source: Apexnewsgh.com|Bolga|Ghana For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com
Low involvement of women in politics hampering women’s development –Grace Nkaw
The Upper East Regional Deputy Women’s Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Madam Grace Nkaw has admonished fresh students of Bolgatanga Midwifery Training Collage (BNTC) Tertiary Education Institutions Network(TEIN) According to the Deputy Women’s organizer, “When it comes to a leadership position, decision-making in the country, we are very few, and that hampers the development of women and children generally in Ghana. We are vulnerable”. He stressed She said: “Issues about women and girls can not be highlighted by men, it must be highlighted by the women because they know more and there is a saying that, he who wears shoes knows where is paining him”. “So, when we are there as women in leadership, we will be able to identify those issues that affect women and see how together we could improve the lives of women. And these girls are young and we need to bring them up in that direction”. She emphasized “Of course, they are young, and sometimes they are intimidated. We need to encourage them, we need to motivate them because i know some of them are very good and they can do more even the boys but they haven’t been given the opportunity and of course, they cannot get the opportunity at a silver platter. “So, I want to encourage them to come out and do the competition with their colleague boys and I know a lot of them can make it and they must not disappoint us as young ladies”. She believes a good number of the students will do well if given the opportunity in the near future as Parliamentarians and appointees. They will start taking leadership roles in the schools, in the lecture hall, and even in TEIN and other roles and as they keep practicing they will grow with it and you would be surprised that you will have a good number of them in Parliament, a good number of them as appointee and Ghana will be better. Women are less corrupt and they cannot be corrupted and I didn’t mean 100% but the majority of women cannot be corrupted. She conclude Source: Apexnewsgh.com|Bolgatanga|Ghana For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com