Traditional authorities have expressed growing frustration over what they describe as their exclusion from key mining decisions and the inequitable distribution of mineral royalties, calling on government to reform the country's mining governance framework. The President of the National House of Chiefs, Ogyeahohoo Yaw Gyebi II, said successive governments have consistently failed to consult chiefs before granting mining leases on customary lands, despite traditional authorities being the custodians of those lands. Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of a mining forum in Accra, he argued that excluding chiefs from the licensing process undermines community participation and weakens accountability in mining host communities. "When I say government, I am referring to successive governments in this country. When they are granting mining leases, they don't inform Nananom, they don't get us involved, even though Nananom owns the land in this country," he said. H...