Ghana mining dispute: community leaders and opposition MP demand action against Chinese firm and illegal galamsey

Sofo Osman Dauda, chairman of the Gangway Co‑operative Mining group in Aboso, led a press conference calling on President John Dramani Mahama and Lands Minister Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah to stop the Chinese‑owned Global Ore Industry from taking over mining concessions in Bompieso and Aboso. Dauda argued that the former NPP government had designated the area as a community‑mining zone and that locals should be allowed cooperative mining rather than losing jobs to foreign operators.

In Parliament, opposition leader Osahen Alexander Afenyo‑Markin accused President Mahama of knowing individuals involved in illegal mining (galamsey) and urged the Attorney‑General to obtain a formal statement from the president. He criticised what he described as double standards in prosecutions, contrasting the swift case against NPP Ashanti Regional Chairman Bernard Antwi Boasiako with the lack of action on the president’s own remarks.