What, reportedly, is an agreed US$10 billion dollar payback to Ghana by the People’s Republic of China for Bejing’s rights to mine bauxite in the country’s 200-odd square kilometer environmentally important Atewa Range Forest Reserve, continues to encounter fierce pushback from a swathe of international environmentalists and pockets of ordinary Ghanaians notwithstanding evidence that the project appears to have the backing of the government of the country’s Head of State, Nana Akufo-Addo.
