The GoldBod Technical Committee on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, held a successful stakeholder engagement with small scale miners, gold dealers, Chiefs and other stakeholders in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region.
The team, tasked to draft a policy proposal for the establishment of the GoldBod has been embarking on consultative stakeholder engagements with players in the gold value chain to put up a comprehensive draft for the establishment of the Board.
The team has already met players in Eastern, Greater Accra, Ashanti and the Western regions, before the latest meeting in Bolgatanga.
Led by the Acting Managing Director of the Precious Minerals Marketing Company, Sammy Gyamfi, a private legal practitioner, the meeting Bolga, just like the others, brought together participants across the gold value chain.
They included small scale miners, gold dealers, bullion traders and jewelers in the Upper East region who were sensitized on the purpose, objects and functions of the soon to be established GoldBod and the need for stakeholders to cooperate with the Board.
The establishment of the GoldBod has been lauded by players in the gold value chain especially those in the small-scale sector who believe the coming to being of the Board will help boost the industry.
When established, industry players believe it will help streamline gold purchases in the country where foreigners buy the product at their own prices.
Also, the smuggling of gold outside the country without payment of relevant taxes to the government will be a thing of the past, with former Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Member of Parliament for Suame, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, lauding it as a good thing if properly implemented.
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Below are some scenes from the fruitful engagement in Bolgatanga.
