Perseus Mining Ghana (GH) Company Limited (PMGL) stands accused of destroying cocoa farms and cash crops in Breman, posing a severe threat to food security in Upper Denkyira West District in the Central Region.
Reports indicate that Perseus Mining Ghana (GH) Limited (PMGL) has recklessly cleared a five-acre farm owned by local farmer, Kofi Adu, without compensation, jeopardising Ghana’s cocoa-driven economy.
This paper discovered that Adu was not the only farmer affected; other farmers also had their farmlands razed by the mining company, suffering the same fate.
Despite warnings, the company has ignored protests, forcibly seizing lands of poor farmers with excavators and drilling machines.
Narrating his ordeal to Ghanaian RADR, Adu, a member of the Concerned Farmers Association-Breman (CFAB), who never consented to mining on his property, claims PMGL destroyed his five-acre farm—including cocoa, oil palm, and food crops—without payment.
The CFAB is a community-based organisation that has received and continues to receive support from Wacam and its BRACE partners-Nature and Development Foundation and A Rocha Ghana, a human rights and environmental mining advocacy NGO in Ghana.
Since 2021, Wacam has empowered CFAB through paralegal training, education on the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703), and knowledge on Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC), among others.
According to Adu, he had demanded GHC400,000 per acre, but the company refused, instead resorting to force, citing concession rights.
In a desperate plea, he called on the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, and NGOs such as Wacam, and civil society to intervene.
His two-page letter, seen by Ghanaian RADAR, details the devastation: “My family’s survival depends on this land.
“Now, everything is gone.” He has submitted video and audio evidence to support his case.
Adu urged the Mahama administration to act before the situation worsens, stressing that PMGL’s actions threaten livelihoods and food security in the region.
