The Scramble For Ghana’s Oil Begins

By Carly Ahiable, Business in Ghana

Some people call it Dino Juice, Texas Tea, Black Gold while other call it the fluid with rising cost but here in Ghana, where the continental shelf is impregnated with oil, crude may be assuming a new name, HOPE (Help Our People to Enjoy). Who want to be hungry and suffer in abundance of oil wealth? Every Ghanaian hopes to enjoy peace and prosperity but how trustworthy are the international agencies and multinational companies in their resolve to develop the oil reserves of Ghana, and keep the nation united and peaceful as they find it?

BURN, BABY BURN – NIGER DELTA GHOST!

By Kwaku Adu-Gyamfi, THE VOICE OF  REASON

ONCE UPON A TIME, the Niger Delta was calm until the oil find

Making the politicians’ bank accounts feel like fluid

Swimming in money like Tsunami flood

Eating, drinking and partying like no tomorrow

While the citizens go to bed with empty tummies

You wonder   why Delta is burning

Critical News, 22nd August 2010

There couldn’t have been a better week for democracy in our Ghana, this week.  The NDC party, not the Government, went on public record to state their intention to clean the judge’s benches and served notice to the Chief Justice of her perceived bias in recent rulings by the judiciary.  Following the decision to allow Kwadwo Mpiani and Wereko Brobbey to walk without a recommendation to formally charge them with any offence, the judges explanation of his understanding of the law, so completely baffled both opposing sides that the NPP claimed it as a vindication of their innocence and the NDC took up arms against the law.  The pity of it all is that the NDC party, which has not been able to dissociate itself from the Government, thought they should threaten mayhem and cause fear and panic across board by resurrecting the murder of judges under the (p)NDC, which no adult of voting age in Ghana has forgotten.  We are reminded of this event every time we pass in front of the Courts in Accra.