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When UK-Interests Front and/or Oppose Fair-Trade
Oil Share for Ghana (2.0)
By Prof Lungu
January 12, 2016
"...Fact is, you must first get your fair share of Oil and
Gas revenues before you can manage your Oil and Gas revenues
for real growth, inclusivity, equity, and sustainability.
Anything less is a fraud...So, when Ghana lost $6 billion
focusing on "Revenue Management" as politicians and
bureaucrats clung to the so-called Ghana Hybrid System like
a fetish, that was not growth...That was a $6 billion
'Revenue Management Trojan Horse'..That was a $6 billion
loss to Ghana." (Prof Lungu, 7 Jan 16).
We noted in Part 1.0 of this series that lately, effort at
transparency and accountability for Ghana's oil and gas has
focused on "Revenue Management in the interest of Ghana". We
also noted that the British Government was surely protecting
its own national interests and the interests of Tullow when
they committed to spending almost $30 million of British
tax-payer money to "assist Ghana" with "revenue management"
of Ghana's oil and gas, though the so-called "Ghana Oil and
Gas for Inclusive Governance (GOGIG)".
As far as we can see, there is little growth and inclusive
development for Ghana the way GOGIG is conceptualized. GOGIG
and the signature "Ghana Oil and Gas Revenue Management"
program as currently operationalized is a Trojan Horse.
REPEAT: This is not rocket science. You must first get your
fair share of oil and gas revenues before you can manage
your oil and gas revenues for real growth, inclusivity,
equity, and sustainability.
Anything less is a fraud!
So, when Ghana lost $6 billion while focusing on "Revenue
Management" as politicians and bureaucrats clung to the
so-called Ghana Hybrid System like a fetish, that was not
true growth for Ghana. It was growth in somebody else's
pocket. That was a $6 billion racket against Ghana over the
last five years.
Now, we covered the important matter of the IMF and The
World Bank noting that they are actually a part of the Ghana
under-development mechanism. Then there are those
"home-bred" agencies and others controlled by outside forces
through (1) funding strings, (2) lax/non-enforcement of
laws, and (3) lack of transparency.
Point is, in Trojan Horse Fashion, GOGIG and the "home-bred"
agencies never stopped to ask if Ghana was receiving a fair
share of Ghana's oil revenues in the first place!
We know that the "home-bred" agencies are opposing,
fronting, or otherwise resisting the fair-trade PSA for
Ghana's Oil and Gas. In fact, there are 5 (five) such
organizations we now regard as co-opted. They are not
neutral to the PSA vs. Ghana Hybrid System policy question
because the agencies and/or their leadership have received,
or are still receiving funding from the GOGIG initiative,
and potentially, from other UK/USA sources.
Therefore, those agencies cannot sit in judgment, or corral
the PSA discourse and pretend that they are impartial
experts on the FTOS-Gh/PSA policy debate. They simply
accepted the GOGIG program manager agenda and went along for
the ride on the "Revenue Management Trojan Horse".
However, the "Ghana Hybrid System" (GHS) is actually a
riskier enterprise for Ghana that was not properly accounted
for by GOGIG.
GHS promotes opaqueness and lack of transparency!
GOGIS promotes corruption and theft of oil revenues!
Then, you are still not getting your fair share of the oil
revenues, compared to the "standard" model crude oil
agreement, the PSA!
So, did Ghana truly receive a Fair-Share" of oil proceeds
from the "Ghana Hybrid System" (GHS) compared to the
"STANDARD? The answers is the $6 billion-plus loss to Ghana
over 6 year discussed above.
So, maybe the following "First Order Fronting" organizations
and their leadership operating in Ghana will tell Ghanaians
how much money they have received from any British- or
American-sponsored initiative that promoted the GOGIG Trojan
Horse while flatly ignoring and trivializing the PSA policy
question?
1ST ORDER AGENCIES FRONTING GHS AND/OR OPPOSING PSA:
1. Oxford Policy Management (Simon Hunt , Nick Travis)
2. OXFAM America (Richard Hatokuevor, Nadine Kone)
3. Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) (Mr.
Emmanuel Kuyole).
4. Africa Center for Energy Policy (Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam)
5. Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC) Professor
Paul K. Buah-Bassuah). (See note).
4 (FOUR) DIRECT QUESTION FOR THE "FIRST ORDERS"
(1) Do you truly believe it is Fair-Trade, or that Ghana is
meeting its Oil Income goals, the focus of the GOGIG
"Revenue Management" initiative, when Ghana received just
17% of the oil revenues?
(2) How much money have you and/or your agency received from
any British- or American-sponsored initiative that defended
or promoted the Ghana Hybrid System or its NPP-infested
predecessor?
(3) How much money have you and/or your agency received from
any British- or American-sponsored initiative that defended
or promoted the GOGIG "Revenue Management Trojan Horse"?
(4) When and how strongly did you and/or your organization
argue on behalf of Ghana's growth and development that the
foundation Ghana Hybrid System contracts are predatory,
therefore fraudulent?
But wait dear reader, there is more!
2ND ORDER AGENCIES RESISTING PSA AND/OR FRONTING FOR
FRAUDULENT GHANA HYBRID SYSYTEM (GHS):
Naturally, there are other organizations operating directly
in Ghana, or through fronts in Ghana, but located in the
United Kingdom, the United States, or elsewhere. Those
agencies, through their own direct actions, plans,
negligence and/or desire for funding regardless of source,
have become part of the troops pushing and pulling the GOGIG
"Revenue Management Trojan Horse".
The 2nd Order Agencies and their leadership are:
To be continued!
Notes/Sources
1. Ghana Oil and Gas for Inclusive Growth (GOGIG), (http://www.opml.co.uk/projects/ghana-oil-and-gas-inclusive-growth-gogig).
2. Mr. Simon Smith, UK Ambassador to Ukraine, on PSA (2013)
. So
Ukraine can have PSA, but not Nkrumah's Ghana? (http://ghanahero.com/FTOS_GH_Campaign.html).
3. We appreciate the funding challenges facing Professor
Paul K. Buah-Bassuah and the PIAC. However, as a public
entity, we believe that PIAC has failed to question the
revenue generating mechanism at "the mouth of the oilfield"
itself. To the point, none of the PIAC reports we have
reviewed has covered the PSA/Ghana Hybrid System policy
debate. However, the PSA policy debate has been on-going
longer than 4 years even as the list of countries
subscribing to the PSA keeps on growing. (That list now
includes the South Sudan).
4. GHANAHERO.COM & PROF LUNGU POLICY ON SOURCES:
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written to the standards of a journal or peer review
article. We only provide detailed sources and references to
serious entities, from an intellectual frame of reference.
Contact us, if you need a copy of a final paper on any
subject we've tackled. Contact us, too, if you need a copy
of a document we've referenced or discussed in any paper,
including this one.
5. Sign the Fair-Trade Oil Share-Ghana (FTOS-GH) Petition:
https://www.change.org/p/ghana-fair-trade-oil-share-psa-campaign-ftos-gh-psa).
GhanaHero.com. WWW.GhanaHero.com.
www.GHanaHero.Com/FTOS_Gh_Campaign, for more information.
(Read Mo! Listen Mo! See Mo! Reflect Mo!).
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Prof Lungu is based in Washington DC, USA.
When UK-Interests Front and/or Oppose Fair-Trade Oil Share
for Ghana (2.0).
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