Sex Workers Invade Western Region

The discovery of oil at the Cape Three Point in the Western Region is said to be already attracting more commercial sex workers from other West Africa countries and other parts of the country to the region, says Dr. Ronald Sowa of the Effia- Nkwanta hospital. Dr. Sowah who is the Eastern Regional HIV/AIDS and STI’s coordinator, said, the oil discovery in the region will bring more business venture to the region, and therefore more sex workers from other Regions and ECOWAS will throng to the Western Region to operate, since a lot of young men (and women) would come to seek job there.

And scouts sent out by The Independent newspaper some of the onshore towns where the oil companies operate from confirmed the information. Even in Secondi-Takoradi, the word is ripe on the lips of the commercial sex workers who have already started working out their plans for the coming “paradise.” Already information available from the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) indicates that more and more oil is still being discovered, and the Ghana oil is said to be of the best quality, which has already caught the eye of global oil giants.

These companies will be coming in with their oil rings large- scale equipments, and top level workers in all areas of the industry, and these workers paid multi- national incomes will have money to burn.And the commercial sex workers seem to have conducted a full appraisal of the issues and done all the arithmetic and accounts and have the conclusion that good money, probably to the offensive degree, is coming to the Western Region.

Hence some have already started pitching camp early in order to be left out of the coming action in the coming paradise. Meanwhile some of the oil wells, such as Mahogany and Hyedua, have already been accessed and are reported to become functional in 2010. According to the GNPC, Ghana will start with about 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day, and that will be split according to an agreed ratio between involved parties, the Republic of Ghana and the company investing in a particular well.

By simple arithmetic and at current world price of $140.00per barrel, the 100,000 barrels is worthy approximately, $14000000.00 out of the ground, and that is how Ghana and the companies are likely to be splitting each day; that is before the barrels drilled per day goes up and the price of crude oil on the world market change.