CNC seeks competition in Liberia’s mining sector
A conglomeration of Nimba citizens under the banner, Collaboration of Nimba Citizens (CNC) have called on the Government of Liberia to grant access to other mining companies to operate in Liberia.
The Collaboration of Nimba citizens is an umbrella organization of Nimbaians in Liberia comprising Nimba Kwado and the Conference Committee of Nimbaians for Better Deal with aim to brainstorm key issues springing out of the proposed Arcelor Mittal Liberia deal that is expected to have them stay in Liberia up to 2049.
The group called on the government of Liberia through the Legislature to encourage competition in the mining sector and consider its recommendations from the consultative Nimba Conference as an addition to initial petitions submitted by civil society and stakeholders of Nimba received by the House of Representatives on December 2, 2021.
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The group’s spokesperson Harrison Luo, made a repeated call on the Liberian Government to give access to many mining companies including the SOLWAY mining company and others to carryout mining activities in Nimba with the aim of creating more jobs, scholarship opportunities and other social benefit for the people of Nimba.
“The people of Nimba don’t want one company to create a mineral colony in Nimba and overshadow all of the mountains for mining purpose and leaving out other company who have interest in mining in Nimba,” the group said.
According to group, the SOLWAY Mining, an exploration company with approximately half of its workforce from Nimba “has been illegally muzzled by Arcelor Mittal Liberia and some officials of Government, mainly some key decision makers in the Lower and Upper Houses of the National Legislature to abandon its mining operations in the current localities.
