The Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Natural Resources, Francis Manu-Adabor has hinted that the temporary
He said “It's a source of income for so many people so it is not easy to let people go and sit in the house without a job. That is why they go back anytime we go and sack them. So the small-scale mining will have to come back”.
Mr. Manu Adabor said this while arranging a meeting between the Parliamentary Select Committee and the Minister of Natural Resources, Mr. Peter Amewu on finding ways to streamline the activities of small-scale miners.
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"We are going to hold a meeting with the minister [Lands] and then the minister of Environment too. So very soon I think we will get the time and then let it come out," he said.
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The Chairman, however, was not specific on the exact date on the lifting of the ban as he said, “I cannot give you date now but I know it would not be too far from now."