Management of Shaanxi Mining Ghana Company Limited has paid GH�100,000 as compensation to 43 farmers whose farms were affected by the activities of the company.
In 2012 the GNA reported that the company had displaced some farmers and this prompted the Mineral Commission to investigate and directed the Company to pay compensation to the affected farmers.
Speaking at the compensation ceremony at Gbane the Human Resource Manager, Mr. Joseph Anokye, said the company had initiated programmes to fulfill the other recommendations of the Mineral Commission and expressed the hope that they would be fully completed by the end of the year.
He said all the stakeholders were involved in discussions, negotiations and consultations about the compensation aimed at ensuring peace and tranquility.
Mr Anokye said the company had employed over 450 workers of whom about 354 of them come from the community, adding �some of them have been trained to acquire employable skills in areas such as winch operation, drilling, laboratory techniques, plant and generator operation�.
He said safety was the number one goal of the company and safety education and awareness was always done at the beginning of the shift before work starts and that so far no any major accident had been recorded.
The Managing Director of the company, Mr James Lee, said since 2008 the company mandated to provide technological, haulage, human resource, financial and mineral processing assistance to the two concessionaires, Yenyeya and Pubortaaba Mining Enterprises, had executed its duties successfully.
He said underground development of four vertical shafts and an incline shaft were ongoing alongside major physical infrastructure development including the main office, residential and a surface processing plant.
The company, Mr Lee said, had sunk seven boreholes in the area and in 2013 completed a $1 million bridge over the river �Oun� separating Datuku and Kejetia to enhance vehicular and human [especially pupils] movement.
Between 2011 and 2014, the company paid a total of 70,000 Ghana cedis and property and business operation rates to the Talensi District.
Mr Lee said the company would continue to play a very active role in the development of the area and appealed to community members to cooperate with the company.
Mr Peter Yaro, the Chief Linguist of the Gbane Chief, thanked the management of the company and said the compensation would help alleviate the plight of the affected farmers and their families.
Mr David Gaani , one of the affected farmers on behalf of his colleagues expressed his gratitude to the company.
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