Joint committee under fire over report on salt mining lease granted Electrochem

A joint committee of Parliament has come below hearth over its report on the salt mining lease granted to Electrochem in Ada.

The Energy and Lands Committee really helpful to the House that there must be no overview of the mining lease granted to the corporate.

This is regardless of allegations of police and army brutalities towards the indigenes, which have led to the dying of a miner and accidents to many.

Presenting the report, Chairman of the Energy Committee Samuel Atta Akyea indicated that there isn’t any factual foundation to overview or tinker with the mining lease granted to Electrochem.

The folks of Ada have additionally complained in regards to the lease awarded to the corporate, which has displaced lots of the indigenes from their small-scale salt mining actions within the space.

MP for the realm, Christian Corletey Otuteye decried what he described because the monopoly granted to Electrochem to mine salt within the space, pushing the indigenes out of enterprise.

“When we go on with this, we’ll nonetheless not have our peace. But let go of issues within the method wherein the folks additionally settle for. There haven’t been sufficient stakeholder consultations and that has led to all this…I’m not towards the report fully however I want it may have been completed in another way,” he stated.

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