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Stakeholders of AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine have undergone a workshop to review the mandate of the Community Consultative Committees(CCC�s). At a workshop in Tarkwa, the members of committee deliberated on ways of reviving the CCC�s for a sustainable future for developmental projects to be instituted within the Mine�s host communities. The Superintendent - Stakeholder Management on the Mine, Senyo Mensah Buake who took the members through the workshop gave an overview of the CCC concept and underscored the importance of CCC�s in the Mine�s operations. He said the time has come for AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine to review the mandate of the Community Consultative Committees to enhanced sustainable community development through partnership with the Municipal Assembly and other relevant agencies. He called on the members to increase their membership drive to affirm their contributions to the group and realign their thinking to become a committee that is dedicated towards ensuring community development and well-being rather than seeking wealth for its members alone adding that �the time has come for the group to be owned by the community themselves and not solely driven by the mine�. Participants later went into small groups to brainstorm on the way forward for the CCC�s with emphasis on whether to dissolve the old membership and who qualifies to be a member. They also came up with ways it can effectively be managed in the host communities, give feedback and monitor the various developmental projects. The workshop was participatory with group presentations. Participants indicated their readiness and commitment to work together with the company in realising the goals of the CCC�S. They all sang in unison to the slogan �yes we can�. In attendance were some Government Decentralization Agencies Representatives from the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipal Assembly, all the 19 host community leaders and women groups, youth groups, NGOs, Assembly members of Teberebie and Akyempim electoral areas. A communique on the workshop will be issued out to participants to enable them have copies of their deliberations for further discussions.