The Paramount Chief of the Mankessim Traditional Area, Osagyefo Amanfo Edu IV, has appealed to Parliament to expedite approval of the mining hire for the Ewoyaa Lithium Project, cautioning that the continuing extend is deepening hardship amongst affected communities.

Speaking on The Pulse, following a PleasureNews documentary filmed within the affected space, “Hope on Pause: The Lithium Promises“, which highlights how stalled commitments have left native aspirations in limbo, the manager stressed out that parliamentary debates over the proposed 5% royalty will have to now not stall all of the venture.

He argued that legislators may proceed deliberations at the royalty association whilst permitting the mining hire to be licensed straight away.

According to him, mining operations require substantial time to organize ahead of extraction starts. Approving the hire, he famous, would permit the trade to start up initial paintings, together with the resettlement of citizens, reimbursement processes, and the supply of infrastructure tasks that had been promised on the outset.

“It takes now not not up to a yr to finish and fee a mine. They are going to do the civil works, the mechanical paintings, and {the electrical} paintings. After that, they’ll do the resettlement concurrently ahead of these types of issues. These processes don’t seem to be going to be inside the subsequent six or seven months, so my opinion is that, parliament will have to approve the hire in order that those processes will start,” he stated.

“If our pastime now’s the royalty, via January 2027, when manufacturing begins, then we get our royalties,” he added.

Osagyefo Amanfo Edu IV insisted that early approval is the one viable course to making sure that households displaced via the venture may also be relocated, supported, and given the chance to pursue the venture capital they had been promised.

He warned that any more extend would irritate the already precarious residing prerequisites within the affected communities, prerequisites captured vividly via PleasureNews cameras.

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