Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has pledged to transform small-scale miners into millionaires if elected president.
Addressing a group of small-scale miners in the Ashanti region as part of his Nationwide Tour, the vice president outlined plans to revolutionize the mining sector to benefit local miners.
He emphasised the establishment of community mining schemes in abandoned shafts and the exploration of new mining sites to create jobs and wealth for citizens.
“We will talk to the big mining companies; abandoned shafts, we will open them as community mining schemes for our people, and the new places that we will discover, we will open them.
We will create jobs for our people, we will make you millionaires and we will make you rich, that is what we are going to do,” he declared.
However, the promise has been met with scepticism by some small-scale miners.
