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Doe-Adjaho must
wake up from his own Rip Van Winkle state (1)
By: Prof Lungu
June 03, 2016
"...(W)hat
can only be described as patently pathetic
sycophancy on the part of Hon. Edward Doe-Adjaho,
Speaker of the House in Ghana's Parliament, is on
full display for all...to see... The Speaker...is
not... serious when he criticizes the
Achimota-Ofankor Road "create, loot and share” scam
(while) sitting in his China-made armchair... Fact
is, at the same time that (he) is crying "fire"
about a GH¢87,500,000 ($22,727,745) padded cost
scam...he himself has been quietly presiding over a
more staggering “create loot and
share...scam"...$6,000,000,000...of Ghana's Oil
revenues...Doe-Adjaho himself is presiding over a
scam that is 27,413 times higher than the one he is
now condemning in public... So, how's that 17%
working for Ghana...Chairman Edward
Doe-Adjaho?...Wake up from that Rip Van Winkle
slumber, Speaker Doe-Adjaho...Pass a strong
Ghana-centered Fair-Trade Oil Share E&P bill...for
better than 51% for Ghana...Stop the massive "loot
and share" of Ghana's oil revenues right now, "Hon."
Edward Doe-Adjaho!...," (Prof Lungu, 2 June, 2016).
In a depressingly enduring pattern of
“create loot and share syndrome" of the NDC party
administration, what can only be described as
patently pathetic sycophancy on the part of Hon.
Edward Doe-Adjaho, Speaker of the House in Ghana's
Parliament, is on full display for all Ghanaians and
Ghana supporters to see.
As reported by the
Ghanaian Chronicle and many other sources this week,
Mr. Doe-Adjaho "chided the Roads and Transport
Committee (Parliament of Ghana) for failing to
exercise adequate oversight role in what...The
Chronicle can conveniently refer to as the
Achimota-Ofankor Road scam."
The report this
time is, a road project estimated to cost
approximately GH¢40.4 million in 2008 ($10,493,725
in 2016 dollars) by the NPP who were kicked out of
office before they could attempt to execute the
project, has now ballooned to "a staggering GH¢128
million ($33,247,444 in 2016 dollars) ...When the
NDC took over...(and)...the contract was
reviewed..."
Clearly, the spectacular, Mount
Afadjato-sized increase in the cost of the
Achimota-Ofankor Road project, over 300%, can't be
chalked under inflation alone, if we've been paying
attention to the numbers from the Ghana Statistical
Services.
Fortunately, but unluckily for
Hon. Edward Doe-Adjaho, many Ghanaians and Ghana
supporters, from Ghana to Argentina, to Belgium, to
Russia, to Zimbabwe, etc., have begun to catch up
with Edward Doe-Adjaho and his Trump-sized bluff.
The Speaker of the House is not serious at
all when he criticizes the Achimota-Ofankor Road
"create, loot and share” scam sitting in his
China-made armchair in his office, in the nation's
capital, Accra. Many observers are now recognizing
Edward Doe-Adjaho's gorilla-style chest-pounding
criticism of the Achimota-Ofankor Road scam as just
another scam, merely a front.
Fact is, at
the same time that Edward Doe-Adjaho is crying
"fire" about a GH¢87,500,000 ($22,727,745) padded
cost scam by the same NDC administration about that
road project, he himself has been quietly presiding
over a more staggering “create loot and
share...scam" about Ghana's oil revenues.
And, it is a Bernie Sanders-style HUGE (i.e.
mammoth) one, $6,000,000,000 (as in 6 billion
dollars with 9 zeroes), of Jubilee oil money.
The Jubilee Oil Fields contract scam was
initially started by the NPP administration under
Mr. Kuffour when they liberally gave out Ghana's oil
contract under colonial-era concession agreements.
They could have, in fact they were under obligation,
to use world standard Production Sharing Agreement
(PSA) contract, consistent with existing law,
Fair-Trade Oil Share principles, and common sense.
But they didn't.
The NDC government has had
more than seven (7) years to fix that NPP legacy
problem and have actually done little about it,
apart from merely calling that NPP scam, the "Ghana
Hybrid System".
NDC's so-called "Ghana
Hybrid System" is a scam, and that is what the "S"
stands for. It is in fact the "Ghana Hybrid Scam" on
Ghana's oil revenues!
In fact, it is for that
reason that they've actually hidden from Ghanaians
the bill they've long intended to pass, but for
strong opposition from civil society groups using a
multi-faceted, public shaming, social media,
anti-Ghana Hybrid Scam campaign, and petition.
Support Ghana!
Long onto the internet and
use your email address to sign the Fair-Trade Oil
Share Ghana (FTOS-Gh) Petition, at:
https://www.change.org/p/ghana-fair-trade-oil-share-psa-campaign-ftos-gh-psa/
To be continued....
SOURCES
Ghanaian Chronicle. Parliament Has To
Wake Up From Its Rip Van Winkle State
By Ghanaian
Chronicle,
(http://www.modernghana.com/news/693991/parliament-has-to-wake-up-from-its-rip-van-winkle-state.html/).
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