Of The Executive Presidency & The Future Of Ghana’s Oil Industry

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• A GERSIS 10 years ago

  I wonder why Francis Kwarteng of all people will now be writing this trash:
  
  =>"Progressive leaders have made good use of concepts on behalf of the countries they represent and admire. But not so in the body politic of Ghan ...
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  I wonder why Francis Kwarteng of all people will now be writing this trash:
  
  =>"Progressive leaders have made good use of concepts on behalf of the countries they represent and admire. But not so in the body politic of Ghana."
  
  Were you Francis Kwarteng now the one who praised Mahama/NDC government day and night?

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

  Nyebro Yaw,
  
  Your excoriating dissection of what is essentially a neo-colonial state, in which the comprador and petty bourgeois lackeys of finance capital, through their executive, legislative and judicial representatives ...
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  Nyebro Yaw,
  
  Your excoriating dissection of what is essentially a neo-colonial state, in which the comprador and petty bourgeois lackeys of finance capital, through their executive, legislative and judicial representatives compete to outdo each other as to who is more cooperative, more imitative caricature, and more accommodating to vested foreign interests, in the midst of ignorance induced general apathy by the populace is so incisive, and equally so unnerving, that one is tempted to throw in the towel in this quest for a fair trade off for Ghana's oil and gas resources. See the two comments generated so far. They are so blatantly obtuse, crass, hollow and devoid of any sensibility that one wonders if these characters also mean well for Ghanaians!
  
  The unflinching slavish capitulation of our "educated" citizenry to the dictates of neo-colonialism and imperial interests gives a deep meaning to Bob Marley's call to us to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery. Africans are totally in the grips mental slavery,and effectively in bondage to foreigners, from West and East. It pays the lackeys who benefits well from selling their fellow Africans. Only the mass revolt of the populace can stop them in their greedy tracks. Let some of us who see beyond them a greater vision be the mid-wives of the coming popular revolt.
  
  Thanks so much for throwing your heavy weight behind the campaign to secure for Ghana a fair and equitable share of our minerals. After oil and gas, gold, diamonds, etc. shall follow suit. Material is being gathered for that. Our economic emancipation and independence depend on our success.
  
  
  Think about it! Not even an illiterate peasant will give his/her land on a share-cropping basis for only 17% of the harvest. The popular way of sharing is one third for the land owner, one third to the land (effectively the land owner) and one third to the share-cropper. That's PSA at the village level for you! What's so difficult to understand about that?
  
  The oil and gas belong to us and oil alone valued at 160bn in the ground! They invested about $4bn, with Ghana also contributing to the discovery and exploitation, and they want to take $140bn and we only $20bn!!! Only people under the grip of mental slavery don't see anything wrong with that!
  
  Andy-K

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• Francis kwarteng 10 years ago

  Nyebro Yao,
  
  Thanks for extensive and well-articulated response. Your article is an article itself.
  
  But a bigger thanks go to Efo Solo for his activism and efforts on behalf of Ghana.
  
  We need more of such men and wo ...
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  Nyebro Yao,
  
  Thanks for extensive and well-articulated response. Your article is an article itself.
  
  But a bigger thanks go to Efo Solo for his activism and efforts on behalf of Ghana.
  
  We need more of such men and women in Africa. It is for the likes of him that I am convinced all is not lost. I think Prof Lungu is doing a great job in that regard, too. You are in the mix.
  
  Thanks for the Bob Marley connection. It anticipates my next article.
  
  thanks.

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