{"id":26125,"date":"2022-09-30T06:58:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T06:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=26125"},"modified":"2022-09-30T06:58:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T06:58:13","slug":"its-sad-ghana-interest-in-anglogold-was-sold-for-peanut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/09\/30\/its-sad-ghana-interest-in-anglogold-was-sold-for-peanut\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s sad Ghana interest in AngloGold was sold for \u2018Peanut\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Businessman Dr. Kofi Amoah has expressed worry over the sale of what he called the \u201cGold Coast\u201d to the whites for a pittance.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His comments come on the back of Sam Jonah\u2019s claims that Ghana has 0% of AngloGold Ashanti.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To Dr. Kofi Amoah it\u2019s about time the youth realize that the country\u2019s collective assets are being whittled away on their blind side by the people they have put in power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He blames successive governments for this failure to put the country first but rather their personal interest.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said \u201cA BIG SHAME THAT SUCCESSFUL GOVTS AND PARLIAMENTS OF GHANA HAVE SOLD AWAY THE \u201cGOLD COAST\u201d THAT WAS OUR BIRTH RIGHT Citizens really need to sit up n finally realize that our collective assets are whittled away on our blind side by the very people we elect to be our custodians\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\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\">Our 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.<br>source:mynewsgh <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman Dr. Kofi Amoah has expressed worry over the sale of what he called the \u201cGold Coast\u201d to the whites for a pittance.&nbsp; His comments come on the back of Sam Jonah\u2019s claims that Ghana has 0% of AngloGold Ashanti.&nbsp; To Dr. Kofi Amoah it\u2019s about time the youth realize that the country\u2019s collective assets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[13126,1845,1846,7455,6682,1451,6519,1425,11555,8113,5196,8031,192,4521,5918,2264,4634,7756,11493,4782,10342,7795,12187,67,3805,3048,214,3689,594,5784],"class_list":["post-26125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-amoah","tag-anglogold","tag-anglogold-ashanti","tag-ashanti","tag-birth","tag-businessman","tag-cape-coast","tag-chancellor","tag-citizens","tag-dr-kofi-amoah-citizen-kofi","tag-economy","tag-equity","tag-ghana","tag-ghanaian","tag-gold","tag-government","tag-government-of-ghana","tag-gtv","tag-interview","tag-kofi-amoah","tag-law","tag-mining","tag-n","tag-nsemgh","tag-president","tag-sam-jonah","tag-university","tag-university-of-cape-coast","tag-who","tag-youth"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26125","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=26125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}