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Opinions of Monday, 25 June 2007

Columnist: J. A. Fukuor/Daily Dispatch

Letter from the president: Oil - bless thee, curse thee

Countrymen and women, loyalists and opponents, last Monday’s announcement that oil has been discovered in “significant quantities” off the western coast of Sikaman is about the best news I’ve heard since I came to sit on the Black star stool. I was so thrilled when they brought a glass sample of the find to the Castle. So excited was I that I dipped my hand in the dirty thing and almost licked it – but for a stern, strange look from the Kosmos’ chief executive, who seemed like he was going to muscle me. Please add the oil discovery to my long list of achievements: I took the country to HIPC, I sent the Black Stars to the football World Cup, I brought a total solar eclipse to Sikaman and now, I’ve given our dear country yet another precious gift – oil.