Who owns Sahara Oil Company?

The Ghanaian Voice carries that at his first meet the press encounter, just after his hundred days in office, President Kufuor told the nation that it did not matter who the owners of Sahara Oil Company, the company now lifting oil for the country are.

He had indicated that his main concern as the President of Ghana was the fact that the oil is lifted to Ghana.


The paper says in the minds-eye of the President, the end justifies the means, not the means justifying the end.


But to the opposition NDC in parliament, accountability and transparency do not justify the stance of President JAK and, as a result, the party has set in motion private investigations to unmask the real owners of the company that started lifting the crude for Ghana with the advent of the NPP government.

The minority leader in Parliament, Mr Alban Bagbin(in pic), is reported as saying that he has gone beyond the Registrar General's office, within the register's office, call cards and the key actors in the company "and things don't appear to be pleasant at all."


He said he has gathered oral evidence and documentary evidence, facts and figures and it would be interesting for the facts to come out.


Mr Bagbin, the NDC Member of Parliament for Nadowli North told this paper that, "after we have finished with our investigations we will invite the Minister for Energy to come to Parliament and answer a few questions. It is very strange that there was no transparency in the award of the oil contract, and also the contract was not opened to tender. I know we will come back very soon because the evidence we have are so overwhelming and intractable."