The Minority Leader in Parliament, who doubles as the Member of Parliament for Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam Constituency in the Central Region, Hon. Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, has entreated the Central Regional House of Chiefs to probe the government’s move to have lithium mined at various constituencies in the region.
Addressing the chiefs of the revered house during the house’s last sitting for the year, the minority leader relayed the need for chiefs in the region to get curious about the government’s undertaken lithium deal, which has already been signed without the knowledge of parliament.
The lithium deal, as highlighted by the minority leader, has the government reaching out to a controversial mining lease agreement with Barari DV Lithium and the Atlantic Lithium of Australia for the exploitation of lithium and other associated minerals in five different districts in the Central Region.
These districts include Ekumfi, Mfantseman, Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam, Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa, and the Agona East and West Districts.
Hon. Ato Forson expressed that the Ghana Lithium deal, which in the eyes of the government appears profitable to the country, is never in the best interest of Ghanaians, hence the need for the House to have the deal well scrutinised and deliberated upon for the betterment of the region.
The President of the Central Regional House of Chiefs, who doubles as the Paramount Chief of the Breman Traditional Area, Odeefuo Amoakwa Buadu VIII, stressed that he had facilitated a meeting between the region’s House of Chiefs and Members of Parliament as well as politicians within the Central Region to extensively brainstorm on the region’s development.
This meeting, according to Odeefuo Amoakwa Buadu, is slated to take place on January 8, 2024, a few days before parliament resumes its scheduled activities for next year.
Other Chiefs of the House equally had this comment passed on the lithium issue.
Story Filed By: Eric Annan
