We spent the whole of yesterday ( Thursday, 9th May 2024 ) in Aleker Subcounty, Abim District to ascertain the gold rush situation that has been experienced in the area of Okemer since 23.03.2024.
With the growing uncontrollable numbers of thousands of miners from all over, we have reached out to ensure the local community is well organised into a formal association of artisan miners with a licence.
We shall offer all the support needed to ensure Kakoka artisan miners benefit from the existence of gold in their area as we look out for mineral development that promotes responsible sustainable mining cognisant of the fact that minerals are a finite resource if not managed wisely can result into environmental, social and security problems.
We thank the Abim community for the consensus to work with the Ministry and we urge all Ugandans to collaborate with govt in handling any natural resource.