Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel A. Jinapor, has assured Graphic Communications Group Ltd (GCGL) that his Ministry will carefully study reports and recommendations submitted on the two-day Natural Resources Stakeholders Dialogue and strictly implement them.

The Minister gave this assurance when he received a communique on the Natural Resources Stakeholders Dialogue put together by the Graphic Communications Group Ltd.

Mr Jinapor in his remarks applauded the team from GCGL for bringing up such a timely programme which has been unanimously applauded by the masses as a major success.

“We at the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources are extremely grateful for the leadership you have shown and your outfit in general for putting together such an all-important stakeholders’ dialogue to build a consensus around national issues.”
Samuel Jinapor

The Lands Minister pointed out that although discussions at the Dialogue were productive and comprehensive, it should not end there but rather zero in on specific issues, exemplifying the issue of having surface mining as opposed to underground mining and the question of restricting small scale mining to prevent environmental degradation, as a topic that can be critically examined.

Furthermore, Mr Jinapor noted that due to the very consequential nature of the issues to be discussed, a lot more of such dialogues can be organized to think through some of these specific issues without having to make it a nationwide campaign.

Also, he expressed optimism that the strong ties and collaboration established between the Ministry and Graphic will continue as they work together for the good of the people of Ghana and the country at large.

On his part, Managing Director for Graphic Communication Group Limited, Mr. Ato Afful, stated that the forum which sought to have a broad consensus in getting critical stakeholders agree on a pathway to manage Ghana’s natural resources, was a success.

He further stated that the documents will help build a timetable to follow through the implementation of some key take-out from the dialogue.

Chinese province of Hunan to partner Lands Ministry in Mineral Investment

Meanwhile, a high-powered delegation from the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Hunan Sub-council has paid a courtesy on the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Samuel A. Jinapo.

The visit was to engage the Ministry on avenues the two countries can deepen their bilateral relations and ramp up economic and trade ties to the mutual benefit of citizens of both countries.

Speaking during the visit, Mr Jinapor disclosed that Ghana’s relationship with China is a great and mutually beneficial one which has gained noteworthy recognition in areas of economic trade, mineral and mining investments, education and social development.

“There is a strong people-to-people relationship between Ghana and China. There are a lot of Ghanaian citizens who travel to China for all kinds of businesses and there are Chinese citizens who travel to Ghana for all kinds of businesses.”
Samuel Jinapor

The delegation from the Hunan sub-council made a presentation to the Minister and other officials of the Ministry on the various aspects of the country in which they seek to collaborate with Ghana on. The key sectors which were highlighted in the presentation include mining, healthcare, industrial growth among other things.