GoldBod to roll out gold tokenisation programme in 2027 – Sammy Gyamfi

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), Sammy Gyamfi, has announced plans to introduce a gold tokenisation programme in 2027 to enable Ghanaians and other Africans to acquire fractional ownership in Ghana’s gold resources.

Mr. Gyamfi said the initiative forms part of efforts to move Ghanaians from being spectators in the mining sector to becoming active participants in the country’s gold value chain.

He made the disclosure while delivering the keynote address at the National Mining Dialogue 2026 in Accra on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, on the theme, “Rethinking the Social Licence to Operate.”

According to Mr. Gyamfi, the programme will allow citizens with modest financial resources to participate in gold-backed investment opportunities.

“The GoldBod is also preparing to roll out a gold tokenization program in 2027 to promote fractional ownership of Ghana’s gold resources by citizens and Africans. Through this initiative, citizens with modest funds can participate in gold-backed investment opportunities.”

He said the broader objective is to ensure that Ghanaians have a greater stake in the country’s mineral wealth.

“The objective is simple: we must all own and share in the mineral wealth of our nation.”

Mr. Gyamfi said the initiative is part of a broader push for greater Ghanaian participation in mining, including local refining, jewellery manufacturing and other downstream activities.

He argued that despite more than a century of commercial gold mining, Ghana had yet to secure sufficient local ownership and value addition across the industry.

“If we want a new story, we must own more, refine more, process more, fabricate more and retain more.”

Mr. Gyamfi also called for mining communities to be treated as active partners in the industry rather than merely providing land for mining operations.

“Mining communities must no longer be treated as land donors. They are custodians of the resource hence must be treated as development partners and economic shareholders.”

He said the future of the mining sector would depend largely on whether young people in mining communities could see tangible opportunities from the resources extracted from their communities.

“A social license cannot survive where the youth believe mining has no place for them except as casual laborers and bystanders.”
To address this, Mr. Gyamfi proposed an IPE model – Involve, Protect, Expand – as a framework for renewing the social licence to operate.

He said the model should promote meaningful community participation, environmental protection, indigenous ownership and greater local value addition in the mining sector.