Denmark Ministers for Development Cooperation and Taxation have jointly paid a working visit to the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources John Peter Amewu in Accra, to deepen the bilateral co-operation between the two countries that will be mutually beneficial to both countries.
Mr. Amewu said, government had decided to critically examine the value chain of the natural resource exploitation, especially the downstream linkages, and strategise the best option to reap the maximum benefit.
He added that government had rolled out the National Supply Development Programme, which was a conscious effort to addressing the concerns of all the suppliers along the downstream sections of the mining sector so that the country would reap the needed benefit.
“The programme is in collaboration with the African Mining Development Centre, which is an aspect of the African Mining Vision to ensure that African countries benefit from their natural resources.”
Mr Amewu said government had instituted measures to enter into downstream activities in the extractive sector that would fetch the country additional revenues.
He said it had also instituted measures to increase tax collection and add value to the natural resources so as to ramp up the required income for the nation.
“I think exporting the mineral resources in their raw state has not been a blessing to Ghana, considering the level of depletion of the resources in relation to the benefit accrued to the nation,” he said.
Madam Ulla Tornos, the Danish Minister of Development Co-operation, said Denmark, through the Danish International Development Agency,had implemented a number of development projects in Ghana.
She said the Danish Government was in the process of improving the co-operation from aid to trade, adding that Denmark would re-structure its payment of taxes to Ghana, especially in the area of natural resources.
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