In Ghana, we do not have many juicy stories to tell on the exploitation of gold. All we have to relate is the pollution of our sources of water supply, and the degradation of the environment, putting our people in distress. Last year, The Chronicle had a running battle with a multi-national company which was bent on moving an entire community from their ancestral home, because the township is sitting on gold.
The worry was that all ancestral groves in the town were to be destroyed. In the midst of this entire calamity, the compensation did not go to enrich the people. Central Government received most of the cash, with the people receiving peanuts, if any at all.
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