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The role of Ghana’s Minerals Commission in Asomah-Chereme’s dismissal.

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Often seen as a governance model in the mining sector, Ghana is now in the midst of an unprecedented internal crisis. Should this trend continue in the coming months, the economic fallout could be devastating and could cause Ghana to lose its dominant position as one of the continent’s mining hotspot. The dire situation largely results from the undermining work carried out by the Minerals Commission, in conjunction with the Land and Natural Resources Ministry, which sometimes appears to prioritise local and international interests rather than management of this key sector. Indeed, we are talking about a booming sector whose revenues reached GHS 4.0 billion in 2019 (about US$700 million), amounting to about 8.7% of the state’s tax revenues. If such revenues represent a substantial financial lever for the country, it also attracts the attention of potentially corrupt national and international actors. Collusion… According to The Minerals Commission Act 1993 (Act 450), the Minerals Commission is responsible for regulating and managing the utilisation of Ghana’s mineral resources, in addition to coordinating and implementing policies related to mining. It is presumed to do so in tight collaboration with the Land and Natural Resources Ministry, to secure optimal management of Ghana’s resources. While such cooperation may appear to be effective in theory, it is less so in practice. Repeatedly, the Minerals Commission is suspected of having interfered to the detriment of active operators in Ghana, and the benefit of local – that is to say, close to the minister and the President – and foreign interests. …and corruption Similar arrangements involving the Minerals Commission, and the Land and Natural Resources Ministry would have been used in other cases and could account for the departure of Natural Resources Minister Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh during the last cabinet shuffle. While President Nana Akufo-Addo initially seemed to want to keep his minister, media exposure and allegations of repeated corruption led the President to eventually appoint Samuel Abdulai Jinapor as his replacement. While these adjustments respond to the strategy of the authorities to preserve a good image of the Ghanaian mining market among international investors, the country needs a genuine structural transformation. These forms of bribery are not new, and already in 2017, an analytical study published by scholars Gordon Crawford and Gabriel Botchwey pinpointed the collusion of authorities and their corrupt practices in mining management. The report, entitled Conflict, collusion and corruption in small-scale gold mining: Chinese miners and the state in Ghana, relied on the country’s management to denounce that too often, “public office remains a means of private enrichment rather than public service”. The year 2020 stood out in the media for a whole series of controversial business deals made by the Government, in which suspicions of bribery are high; the mining sector was no exception with the Agyapa Royalties Deal that led to the resignation of the Special Prosecutor.

Kwame Owusu Danso Broadcast – Journalist Panafrican Television.

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