More pressure for the Ghana Government!6 Feb 2026 21:22
The residents are threatening to demonstrate against Atlantic Lithium, but it's not Atlantic Lithium's fault that payments have been delayed for so long, it's the fault of the Government for not Ratifying the Ewoyaa Agreement for over 2 years!! Atlantic Lithium told the residents in good faith in 2023 about the compensation plan, based on what the Government were telling them was the timeline for Ratification, it's the Government that's prevented Atlantic Lithium from making the payments, it's not Atlantic Lithium holding back, Atlantic Lithium WANT to make the payments, but they need Ratification first or it's not their responsibility to compensate anyone.
Atlantic need to get their local people to explain this to the residents, but either way, once Ratification is received, Atlantic Lithium will immediately pay out the compensation. They were never going to pay out compensation until Ratification was received, because if Ratification didn't happen then they would have lost all that money.
This is only minor (not miner LOL!) issue for Atlantic Lithium, it's not going to change the outcome of the Ratification or anything like that, and as the Ratification and Royalty LI look like being cleared in the next 2 and a bit weeks, it's really quite pointless demonstrating at this late stage, other than to push for no more delays, which are extremely unlikely anyway. The leader of the opposition said on Tuesday that the Mining Law etc were promised to be with Parliament within 2 weeks and that he was told that last weekend, so they should have that next week.
These residents should be demonstrating against the Government for delaying the process for so long. The fact that the residents have made this announcement today, will be a big kick up the backside of Parliament to get the Royalty LI and Ewoyaa Agreement Ratification tabled in the Agenda ASAP, possibly on an Urgent Certificate for the one-day process.
Ewoyaa Lithium Project: 1,000 Affected Residents Threaten Protest Over Delayed Compensation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wrICv6zzws