Member of Parliament for Sege, Christian Corleytey Otuteye is vowing to deploy every means at his disposal to halt the adoption of the joint parliamentary committee report on the mining lease granted to ElectroChem Ghana Limited in relation to the salt mining in the Ada Songhor lagoon.
The report which was laid in parliament on Wednesday has okayed the agreement saying there is no factual or legal basis to tinker with the 3 mining leases granted to the company.
Parliament in November 2020 ratified the mining agreement empowering the ElectroChem to undertake salt mining in the Ada Songor Salt lagoon for the next 15 years. The concession area is approximately 41,000 acres.
Residents have resisted the project resulting in protests, attacks and the death of a community leader.
A joint parliamentary committee was tasked to look into the matter.
The committee was emphatic in its report that government cannot interfere with the agreement as there was no basis for any such move.
The report also recommended that:
Electrochem should consider continuing with the allocation of some space to local miners
This should be undertaken according to environmental laws
Continuous stakeholder engagement
Political pundits should desist from making political capital out of use of national assets
Police should investigate death of Numo Korletey Agormedah who was killed in November 2023
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