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Should Ghana pay whistleblowers to scrap ‘hybrid’ oil deals?

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Sun, 26 Apr 2026 Source: Kofi Thompson

Ghanafuor, in the AI-era with its many exciting positive-tipping-point nation-building possibilities, tearing up the so-called ‘hybrid’ oil agreements, depriving Ghana of trillions that could fund the transformation of Ghana into a wealthy nation in which all demographics enjoy high-quality lives, is crucial.

No question. Full stop. Simple.

Ghanafuor, towards that sacred end, perhaps the best way to out-think and out-smart the big thieves in high places amongst our hard-of-hearing, greed-filled, self-seeking elites, who have benefited from the ‘hybrid’ agreements that legitimise our nation’s ongoing rip-off by oil companies operating in our waters, is to offer whistle-blowers indemnity from prosecution. Simple.

That indemnity should apply if they provide actionable, incontrovertible evidence that corroborates what an open secret is.

Add a bounty of 3% of recovered sums flowing from back-dated production-sharing agreements made possible by their whistle-blowing, and Bob’s your uncle: as flowing petro-dollars lift tens of millions of Ghanaians struggling to survive out of poverty through levelling-up policy initiatives designed to empower ambitious and hardworking individuals to bootstrap their own way to financial independence.

Taflaste, freed from soul-destroying poverty, won’t they pay their fair share of taxes and generate jobs for others on top too, I ask?

And when fed-up South Africans harass Ghanaian immigrants in their country, and ask them to go back to their country and help fix it, for example, won’t the Government of Ghana swiftly repatriate them back home to contribute to the resetting of Ghana too, because it has the wherewithal to do so? Simple commonsense. Haaba.

Hmmm, Anansesemkrom Ghana paaa diy33. Tweaaaaaaaaaaa...

Columnist: Kofi Thompson