King says time for Ghana to own Ghana

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Amoatia Ofori Panin
Amoatia Ofori Panin

Okyenhene Amoatia Ofori Panin II says it’s about time Ghana owned itself, and stopped allowing foreigners to own and plunder the country’s natural resources for their countries.

“We should own our country. We should own our mines. We should own our gold. We should own our oil,” the Akyem Abuakwa paramount Chief and President of the Eastern regional house of Chiefs said on Tuesday when traditional leaders of the area met President John Mahama who is on a two-day visit there.

Amoatia Ofori Panin bemoaned that: “Here in this country there are six mobile companies operating in Ghana today, and there’s not one indigenous Ghanaian owned.”

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