If You Mine Like Transeco, No One Will Burn Your Excavators– Deputy Minister Lauds Small- Scale Mining Company
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The Deputy Minister for lands and Natural Resources who doubles as the member of parliament for Tarkwa Nsuaem constituency in the Western region, Hon. George Mireku Duker has praised a small Scale mining company for their approach of mining and commitments to mining protocols.
According to the deputy minister who is incharge of lands at the ministry, Transeco Mineral and mining, a small- scale mining company in the eastern region has done tremendously well by abiding the rules and regulations governing the mining process.
He made this revelation in at a ceremony to commission a school facility funded and built by the Transeco Minerals and mining company and hand it over to the Methodist school of Ampapatia in the Atiwa West District in the eastern region.
He entreated all those weeping over burning of their excavators to emulate the practices of Transeco Minerals and Mining.
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” Some people are weeping because we are burning their excavators. Nana, if you stay away from rivers and do your work accordingly like how Transeco does, no one will burn your excavators. If you go by the rules and regulations that will benefit Ghana at large, Government will follow you just like I have followed Godwin Armah and his workers to encourage them to do proper mining and obey the laws. ” – Hon. George Mireku Duker expresses.
He used the occasion to appeal to other small- scale miners to make their corporate social responsibilities visible like what he commissioned.
” I use this opportunity to plead with all miners in Ghana and around the world especially those around us to take a good decision with their corporate Social Responsibilities that will benefit the general populace just like what we are seeing now. ” – Hon. Mireku Duker added.
Present at the ceremony were the traditional leaders, national and regional executives of Small Scale miners Association, Eastern Regional Managers of Minerals Commission and EPA and the Methodist School staff and pupils of Ampatia.
