Obuasi

How do they expect them to cope? Thankfully, we keep coming here and have no solution.

[on-hold music] I stay at Obuasi and I come in here.

Why? We are tired.

[on-hold music] You heard some parents, um, raising their concerns in the Ashanti region.

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Ęse a happy birthday to Evangelist Ebenezer Yawson.

Onɛhyɛ kwaa yi ti no. Ebenezer Yawson of Agunaba FM, Obuasi.

May this birthday bring him joy.

Um, erade nshira no. Oma na ho din, ęni gye, onshira no, paaa.

We fri Reverend Nana Ojam Boamah, yɛwo Obuasi, ęho, ęna ęba.

Ęna the next one no so, ose happy-

happy-Uh, blissful birthday to, uh, um, Prince Kakari Oben Agyemang.

Did you see anything like this? No.

He was so good to the stand that he was relocated to Oboasi.

He was sent to Oboasi to do the pitch for them.

But the politics here, when Akwebi, Kreti, Kreatoi, Gambi, Wadresi, Soja, now you're going to put my hand there and say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah.

Now it's 16.

Um, and AngloGold Ashanti's, uh, they've got their Obuasi, uh, production down 32%.

That after an incident, uh, someone actually tragically died, um, and that has cost them some money.

Of the increase in costs, $254, uh, an ounce, dollars per ounce increase in costs, 216 came from stuff outside of their, uh, uh, control, royalties, inflation, fuel, and the like.

The reason why I know Betchem.

The reason why I know Obuasi.

It's the Ghana Premier League.

Yeah.

It should also appear in Ghanaian payrolls, suppliers, taxes, royalties, enterprises, and stronger mining communities.

Obuasi should look like gold.

Progress on one side cannot-

You could see say on Asimpa FM

Over time, I mean, if you speak to somebody like Sir Sam Jonah, he will tell you that in his days, almost all the line managers were white.

Mm-hmm.

Now, if you go to Obuasi, if you go to Damang, if you go to Tarkwa, you would see almost every major department headed by a Ghanaian.

Yes.

So it is a s- a, a system, a process they go through.

I think about two are from Obuasi.

They demanded for money before registering a global yard for someone.

Some are from, uh, Ketchiman.

"This was the line," he said, his voice full of pride.

"Gold from Obuasi, cocoa from Kumasi.

All of it came here to the coast." The tracks are still there, rusted and overgrown, but he told me the historic train to Kumasi might run again someday.

A tourist ride back into the forest heartland.