The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has instructed owners of excavators and users to register their earthmoving equipment with the metropolitan, municipal, and district assemblies (MMDAs) under their authority by 2 November 2022.
The directive is part of a raft of measures the government is taking to halt illegal mining activities, popularly called galamsey in Ghana.
In a press statement, Jinapor asked the MMDAs to ensure that owners of excavators disclosed the purpose of the acquisition of the machines before they were registered.
He explained that the assemblies must be certain about the purposes for which the excavator was brought into the country, the area where it was expected to be used, the name and particulars of the current operator or user of the excavator, “and any other particulars the MMDAs may deem necessary.”
Below is the full statement:
Excavator Press Release by KM on Scribd
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