Over 1,000 People To Demonstrate Against Earl/Shaanxi Mining Company In Talensi District Tomorrow

 ssembly members in Talensi, a local

government area in Ghana’s Upper East 

Region, have announced plans to lead

demonstration against Chinese state-backed Earl

International Group Ghana Gold Limited on Tuesday, 18th July 2023.

The demonstrators are expected to converge at the

St. Anthony School Park at Gbani near Earl

International Mining Co. Ltd at 6:00 am.

“We will start our demonstration from the school

park and end at the main entrance of the company

where a petition will be read out to the media and

the general public and later presented to the Hon.

District Chief Executive for Talensi District,” the

letter reads in part.

The Talensi District Assembly’s Presiding Member,

John Millim Nabwomya, confirmed to Media

Without Borders on Monday that the

demonstration would come off Tuesday as

scheduled.

The letter is silent on the purpose of the

demonstration. But sources say the district’s poor

road network is among key concerns the protesters

will bring to the attention of the world.

Some of the roads in the district are so terrible their

potholes can rival swimming pools in

measurements. And a number of culverts which

were assembled for road crossing in the district are

broken apart from the top, looking just like

abandoned caves sealed with rusty iron rods left

behind.

A Minerals Commission report revealed in 2019 that

the Chinese company, hitherto known as Shaanxi

Mining Company Limited, produced “as much as

90% of all gold ore in the Upper East Region”.

Millions in gold are being taken away from the

district by the foreign company while the district

remains extremely deprived in terms of

infrastructure.

The roads that are tarred in the district are not more

than three. The first road, constructed by

government years ago, starts from the Winkogo

Junction (near the Bolgatanga Senior High School)

and ends around the St. Theresa of the Child Jesus

Parish in the district’s capital, Tongo.

The second road joins the Winkogo-Tongo road and ends at Tengzug.

It was tarred during the tenure of Hawa Yakubu as a minister of Tourism to ease access to Tongo Hill after the cultural sit was nominated for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List. 

The third road stretched from Pawlugu.

A community in the west of the District.

To arigu in the next-door North East Region.

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