Samuel A Jinapor (center) in a pose with the Congressional Committee members
A High-powered delegation from the United States of America’s Congressional Committee on Natural Resources on Monday, September 12, 2022 paid a courtesy name on the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Samuel A. Jinapor (MP) to amongst others talk about issues of frequent curiosity between the 2 international locations.
In his welcome handle, the Minister extolled the historic nice relationship between Ghana and the United States of America, noting that, by the unbelievable works of the present US Ambassador to Ghana, the connection has been additional strengthened and elevated to a brand new impetus.
He outlined the core mandate of the Ministry which is the “efficient management and utilization of the lands, forestry, wildlife and mineral resources of our country”.
Hon.Jinapor gave an perception into why framers of the nation’s governance construction married each lands and pure sources underneath one Ministry.
“The framers of our governance architecture were deliberate enough to put lands and natural resources under one Ministry. The idea is the manner in which you exploit and manage your natural resources has an impact on your landscape”.
“This is a Ministry responsible for the Lands and Natural Resources of our country. By that, all the lands in Ghana, forest, wildlife and mineral resources are situated here in this Ministry”.
Throwing extra gentle on every sub-sector underneath his outfit, the Minister highlighted the important thing mandate of the Ministry saying the Ministry’s works covers the three broad sub sectors of Land, Forestry and Mineral Resources.
“The forestry sector is very Important and consequential of our ministry and the country. It has a lot of impact positively and otherwise on the global efforts on halting climate change. Our strategy is anchored on implementing policies which preserve the forest cover of our country. President Akufo-Addo has since 2017, adopted this strategy to preserve our existing forest cover. There are plethora of policy interventions we are implementing as we speak which are intended to preserve the forest cover. The second strategy is to engage in aggressive afforestation and reafforestation. The Green Ghana Day is a project launched last year where in a particular day of the year, the President led the country to plan a certain number of trees.”
In the Mining sector, Hon. Jinapor acknowledged that unlawful small-scale mining is a significant problem to the federal government, nonetheless the Akufo-Addo authorities has since assumption of workplace in 2017 launched into vigorous and aggressive interventions aimed toward making the sector extra enticing and enhance income era.
“We have the large scale mining sector and small scale mining sector. The small-scale mining sector contributes 40% to our gold output. As you know until recently we were the leading gold producer in Africa and sixth in the world”.
Touching on the Lands Sector, the Minister stated the Ministry and the Lands Commission is at the moment rolling out methods to digitalize all land information to allow the Commission maintain correct land transaction and land reform applications.
He additionally referred to as on the necessity for the US market to help and help Ghanaian firms on carbon buying and selling and to amongst others assist profit and promote the Forest sector of Ghana.
“Our relations are still strong where the rule of law is the norm not exception” he opined.
On his half, Mr Edward Case, member of the US Congress and on the Natural Resources Committee, who led the delegation on behalf of Congressman Raul Grijalva thanked Ghana for her multilateral cooperation thus far and pledged the willpower of the US to strengthen their International dedication to guard lives and enhance livelihoods.
The US Ambassador to Ghana, H.E Virginia E. Palmer who was a part of the visiting delegation stated the crew is in Ghana to have a better take a look at number of points surrounding Ghana’s Natural Resources.
She additionally cited Illegal Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing, Cocoa and Sustainable Farming as a number of the points bookmarked by the Congressional Committee as a part of their go to.
She acknowledged the Sector Minister, Hon. Samuel A. Jinapor for his relentless efforts in championing points within the Natural Resources of Ghana.
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