Akufo-Addo unveils plan to halt raw bauxite exports …pave way for Ghana’s Industrialization
President Akufo-Addo has underscored the government's imminent initiative to introduce a Legislative Instrument (LI) in parliament, aimed at prohibiting the exportation of raw bauxite as a catalyst for Ghana's industrialization. Addressing lawmakers in his penultimate state of the nation address to the legislature, he said ““we will lay before this august House, at this First Meeting of this Session of Parliament, a Legislative Instrument to prohibit the export of bauxite in its raw state. We are, also, in the concluding phase of discussions for the establishment of a four hundred and fifty million US dollar (US$450 million) refinery to refine...
