The World Bank is to support Ghana with an amount of $50 million dollars in the fight against illegal mining and the wanton degradation of the environment.
The issue of illegal mining also known as Galamsey in the local parlance has become a crisis management issue for the country over the last two years with the government taking pragmatic steps to end the destruction and pollution of water bodies, land degradation and chemical pollution due to the bad methodologies adopted by miners in the sector.
One significant effort by the government is the ban of the practice, the setting up of inter-ministerial committee to regulate the sector and ultimately the “operation Vanguard” taskforce charged to arrest recalcitrant illegal miners who are bent on flouting the ban and other such laws.
Mr Henry Kerali, the World Bank Country Director for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone on a team visit to the Western Region told the Regional Minister, Dr Kwaku Afriyie that already, the World Bank has gone far with the planning processes on the release of the fund and hopefully, the government of Ghana world be assisted in that direction to address the environmental challenges created by the practice.
The funds would also help come out with innovative ways of schooling people in the business of small scale mining to ensure that their activities do not hamper sustainable livelihood and derail the gains chalked in climate change mitigation activities.
The World Bank Country Director made this known during the start of a three-day official visit to the Region to assess the progress of work on World Bank funded projects.
The country Director, first visited the $25 million West Africa Power Pool project (WAPP) which started in 2011 and is expected to end in December 2018.
The Inter-Zonal Transmission Hub project under the WAPP APL3, program procurement plan, was to reduce the cost and improve upon security of electricity supply to Burkina Faso whilst increasing Ghana’s electricity export capacity.
The project primarily comprises of the construction of circa 200 kilometer of 225 kilo Volt transmission line, construction of electricity injection source in Navorango and delivery point in Ouagadougou.
Mr kerali said the project was being developed to carry out the mandate of Ghana becoming central to power distribution and a unified regional electricity market.
At the lands commission, the Country Director was briefed on the success chalked by the Ghana Land Administration Project and the contribution of the client services unit.
"Currently, land documentation had improved tremendously with most of delays associated with land registration curtailed."
The World Bank has so far spent $46 out of the $50 budget to consolidate and strengthen land administration and management systems for efficient and transparent land services delivery in the country.
The team later visited the Sekondi High court where similar support in terms of accessories and general upgrading of the court had been done to expedite actions on land litigation.
Source: GNA
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fake news, you think world bank is DKM
I thought the ndc said the world Bank is angry with Ghana?in fact this ndc party is a real enemy of Ghana. How can I'm not sure mean "we are vindicated " to the ndc ?and then they come again to say the world Bank is angry? ndc is/are damn desperate and confused. No wonder Ghanaians don't like them likewise the international community, where was the world Bank angry coming from? an angry organization about a sovereign country's batter business with a country and at the same time offering such a huge amount to help the same government and the people they angry with? then this shows how they like and love this government by their good works. Did ndc check themselves before writing to the IMF? do they think they still wedge powers to the world? the world transacted business with Ghana through them ndc when they imposed themselves on the people at the disapproval of the people, the world had no option to Ghana than to deal with the ndc so they shouldn't take that as being with the world so the world will listen to them. The international community were aware ndc got power through the back door, but dealt with them because the Ghanaian people had another chance to boot them out rather than taking arms. Ndc is mot Good For Ghana ! DISCARD THEM INTO THE DUSTBIN! ndc is SATANIC! THANK GOD FOR THIS CHANGE, FORWARD EVER! BACKWARDS NEVER IN THE CAUSE OF BUILDING GHANA!GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND LAND GHANA FOR AT LEAST GIVING US SOME MEN/WOMEN OF WISDOM WHO CAN TAKE OUR COUNTRY FAR! GOD DAMN ENEMIES OF GHANA AND ANTI-GHANA!