{"id":25981,"date":"2022-09-27T05:09:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T05:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=25981"},"modified":"2022-09-27T05:09:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T05:09:15","slug":"its-a-shame-ghana-has-0-equity-in-anglogold-ashanti-sam-jonah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/09\/27\/its-a-shame-ghana-has-0-equity-in-anglogold-ashanti-sam-jonah\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a shame Ghana has 0% equity in AngloGold Ashanti \u2013 Sam Jonah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Businessman Sam Esson Jonah has revealed that the Government of Ghana has zero percent (0%) equity in mining juggernaut AngloGold Ashanti, describing the situation as shameful.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with GTV monitored by\u00a0NSEMGH, Sam Jonah, a former President of AngloGold Ashanti and the current Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast(UCC) noted that even though the Government of Ghana has 10% equity in the mines, it sold all its equity in AngloGold Ashanti leaving it with nothing. This he intimidated speaks to the very little local ownership in Ghana\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur economy has very little local ownership. So if you take the mines, Government of Ghana has by law 10% in all the mines. But beyond the Government of Ghana, there is no Ghanaian who has 2% of any of the mines in Ghana\u2026 Government of Ghana as we speak currently has got zero. It has zero equity interest in AngloGold Ashanti, \u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This he described as a shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman Sam Esson Jonah has revealed that the Government of Ghana has zero percent (0%) equity in mining juggernaut AngloGold Ashanti, describing the situation as shameful. In an interview with GTV monitored by\u00a0NSEMGH, Sam Jonah, a former President of AngloGold Ashanti and the current Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast(UCC) noted that even though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1845,1846,7455,1451,6519,1425,5196,8031,192,4521,5918,2264,4634,7756,11493,10342,7795,67,3805,3048,214,3689,594],"class_list":["post-25981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anglogold","tag-anglogold-ashanti","tag-ashanti","tag-businessman","tag-cape-coast","tag-chancellor","tag-economy","tag-equity","tag-ghana","tag-ghanaian","tag-gold","tag-government","tag-government-of-ghana","tag-gtv","tag-interview","tag-law","tag-mining","tag-nsemgh","tag-president","tag-sam-jonah","tag-university","tag-university-of-cape-coast","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}