{"id":359376,"date":"2017-10-06T06:05:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T06:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=359376"},"modified":"2017-10-06T06:05:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T06:05:40","slug":"mining-ban-may-be-extended-by-3-months-amewu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/mining-ban-may-be-extended-by-3-months-amewu\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining ban may be extended by 3-months – Amewu"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has said his outfit will be seeking at least a three-month extension to the ban on all forms of small-scale mining when Cabinet convenes.<\/p>\n
According to him, the despite some positive results yielded so far\u00a0in the fight against galamsey in the country, the outcome of the campaign, in general, is still unsatisfactory.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”UdCN88jB9hejKf6hWgLN3VWPB3r53l2Z”]The initial\u00a0six-month ban was set to end in October 2017, and Peter Amewu, earlier suggested that\u00a0an extension\u00a0was inevitable because the moratorium had not achieved a substantial amount of its objectives.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Eyewitness News <\/strong>on Thursday, Amewu, who refused to score the government’s anti-galamsey efforts higher than five out of ten, believes that an extension of the ban by at least three months could yield significant strides in the campaign.<\/p>\n “Looking at something similar to what has happened[so far], we could go for about 50% [of the six-month ban]. If we concentrate on the water bodies, which is the heart of the whole fight, we should be able to clear it within the next three to six months,” he said.<\/p>\n Amewu had told the media earlier in October that President Nana Akufo-Addo \u201cthinks sincerely that a lot more needs to be done and we would all have to look into it.\u201d<\/p>\n Per his assessment, the government is still far off from its targets, in the fight against illegal mining.<\/p>\n