{"id":9953,"date":"2025-01-24T15:03:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=9953"},"modified":"2025-01-24T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:03:55","slug":"more-than-100-mining-related-licenses-issued-in-the-final-week-of-akufo-addos-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=9953","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 mining-related licenses issued in the final week of Akufo-Addo\u2019s gov\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data from the Ghana Mining Repository shows that over a hundred mining-related licenses were issued in the last week of former President Akufo-Addo\u2019s New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 103 licenses issued in the year 2025, 102 were granted between January 1st and January 6th, before the swearing-in of President John Dramani Mahama.<\/p>\n<p>This means only one license has been issued under the current government.<\/p>\n<p>under the current government.<\/p>\n<p>These include 21 small-scale mining licenses, prospecting licenses, and mining support services licenses.<\/p>\n<p>This development is particularly concerning amidst heightened public uproar over the impact of illegal mining on the country, particularly the destruction of forest reserves and water bodies.<\/p>\n<p>This has affected major export commodities such as cocoa, yielding low production and being unable to meet the demands of buyers.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Ghana experienced its lowest cocoa production in over 2 decades in the last season, reducing foreign exchange benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data from the Ghana Mining Repository shows that over a hundred mining-related licenses were issued in the last week of former President Akufo-Addo\u2019s New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration. Out of the 103 licenses issued in the year 2025, 102 were granted between January 1st and January 6th, before the swearing-in of President John Dramani Mahama. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,41],"tags":[1689,3208],"class_list":["post-9953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-general-news","tag-akufo-addo-4","tag-mining-related-licenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9956,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions\/9956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}