The truth behind oil find in Ghana - Sam Jonah

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KNYC (USMC) 10 years ago

As a CEO of AngloGold what did you do? Jonah, you should be ashamed of your self. look at obuasi, at lest you could have develop there. You have no legacy, and no school should use you as a case study. You are Useless CEO in ...
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As a CEO of AngloGold what did you do? Jonah, you should be ashamed of your self. look at obuasi, at lest you could have develop there. You have no legacy, and no school should use you as a case study. You are Useless CEO in business circle. MORON
Otuo Ampah 10 years ago

He built kvip for your family fool.I can imagine your social status yet thanks to the mask of the web,a junky like you can insult such a noble man as Jonah.

He built kvip for your family fool.I can imagine your social status yet thanks to the mask of the web,a junky like you can insult such a noble man as Jonah.
mahama 10 years ago

Mr Otuo you right, no insult but the truth hurt. what he said was right this so ceo work so hard not the nation but for there pockets. l don't know what project he has done ,but obuasi is a disgrace to Ghana and l know takor ...
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Mr Otuo you right, no insult but the truth hurt. what he said was right this so ceo work so hard not the nation but for there pockets. l don't know what project he has done ,but obuasi is a disgrace to Ghana and l know takoradi will also follow. it all about the pockets. l thought you were living by exemple but you fail you start to insult the guy by saying he is a junky can you create human being advice yourself first .
OLIVER TWIST 10 years ago

Although I admit this is an old article that has been given a new lease of life by the rented NDC press, I will still address the contents.

Instead of focusing GNPC's efforts in oil exploration, Tsatsu Tsikata was busy div ...
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Although I admit this is an old article that has been given a new lease of life by the rented NDC press, I will still address the contents.

Instead of focusing GNPC's efforts in oil exploration, Tsatsu Tsikata was busy diverting GNPC's funds to Valley Farms, salt-winning and gambling on the derivatives markets.

How the heck does Sam Jonah(a conman like none other) expect Ghanaians to hail Tsatsu for a job he refused to do?

It's so nauseating to listen to such half-truths and outright fabrications by people like Jonah and Tsatsu who sold us out in the 90's. Had these two, where were in charge of critical sectors of our economy excelled at their jobs, Ghana's economy would have been very robust.

Today, they want to be commended for what?

Sam Jonah, take a fucking hike with your buddy Tsatsu in tow! Economic saboteurs.
Carlos Cobb 10 years ago

Mr Jona, thanks for your article but you could do better than this. In all your praise for your self and your cohorts, you failed to tell us how much Ghana gains.

I read from Craig Murray, a non Ghanaian, who expressed hi ...
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Mr Jona, thanks for your article but you could do better than this. In all your praise for your self and your cohorts, you failed to tell us how much Ghana gains.

I read from Craig Murray, a non Ghanaian, who expressed his disgust that Ghana gains almost nothing from all the Gold from Obuasi. How much is Ghana getting from oil? Are you not sad that huge profits, the bulk of all the funds go outside of Ghana?

I believe all your leaders should be ashamed that they sell out Ghana to foreign companies. For the little tips they get in their own pockets, they sell out a whole nation.
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

Author:Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings...
Hahahaha..., Afari Djan on the ropes !

Dr. Afari Djan, the self-acclaimed god of elections, currently finds himself between a rock and a hard place.

The noose around his neck is get ...
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Author:Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings...
Hahahaha..., Afari Djan on the ropes !

Dr. Afari Djan, the self-acclaimed god of elections, currently finds himself between a rock and a hard place.

The noose around his neck is getting tighter and tighter with ever lie that spews out of the mouth of the Tilapia fish-farmer.

The chief returning officer of elections in Ghana is today claiming never to have heard what 'pdf'(portable document format)means.

Lucky for Afari Djan, the NPP will teach him what pdf is all about today for free.

We shall make every NDC foolsoldier see the gargantuan stealing prowess of Afari Djan.
++WHO ELSE CAN?+++ 10 years ago

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JJ rawlings and tsikata and awhois and all those useless entities could not venture to find the oil. they were busily selling national property. No asante, no ghana.+++

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JJ rawlings and tsikata and awhois and all those useless entities could not venture to find the oil. they were busily selling national property. No asante, no ghana.+++
OKRO MOUTH 10 years ago

This tribal nonsense must stop. Without the smallest ethnic group in Ghana there will be no Ghana. We are what we are today because unlike our other neighbours we did not allow tribal differences take over our efforts. We sto ...
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This tribal nonsense must stop. Without the smallest ethnic group in Ghana there will be no Ghana. We are what we are today because unlike our other neighbours we did not allow tribal differences take over our efforts. We stood as one country and that is why we are enjoying the present unparrallel peace.
It is only when we stand as one country that we would be able to fight against the canker of poverty that is "starving" mother Africa.
KNYC (USMC) 10 years ago

Ass hole, I said it what can you do about it MORON. Ass kiser. You can kiss his ass all you want, to me he is nothing.

Ass hole, I said it what can you do about it MORON. Ass kiser. You can kiss his ass all you want, to me he is nothing.
krikri 10 years ago

Kuffour does not understand the written speeches he reads so Frank, please read and explain this piece to him. After that tell him to shut his mouth forever

Kuffour does not understand the written speeches he reads so Frank, please read and explain this piece to him. After that tell him to shut his mouth forever
Dan Budu 10 years ago

Truly Obuasi town is in shambles. However, I am not sure who to blame. Obuasi should have been a small London by now from my estimations. I leave who to blame to observers.

Truly Obuasi town is in shambles. However, I am not sure who to blame. Obuasi should have been a small London by now from my estimations. I leave who to blame to observers.
CARDINAL 10 years ago

NDC RADIO STATION FOOLING

Do you know when this republished article came out? This is a cut and paste job that the NDC Lamptey owned radioxyzonline.com is republishing. The same article praised EO group of having cont ...
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NDC RADIO STATION FOOLING

Do you know when this republished article came out? This is a cut and paste job that the NDC Lamptey owned radioxyzonline.com is republishing. The same article praised EO group of having contributed to the discovery of oil in Ghana.

THIS IS AN OLD ARTICLE PUBLISHED ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO

December 7, 2009
Ghana Oil Men, Tsatsu Tsikata and George Owusu
Posted by xcroc under Ghana, Ghana oil, offshore, oil | Tags: Exxon, George Owusu, Kosmos, Tsatsu Tsikata |

Tsatsu Tsikata and George Owusu have been extraordinarily influential in guiding and developing the quest for oil in Ghana.

I recently came across articles that praise each of them and will copy both complete articles below.Both are puff pieces in that they speak only to the good in their subjects, and address none of the questionable issues. There is much more to the stories of both men. Most of the published information about either man is heavily slanted by political opinion. So one has to read a great many stories, and then try to read between the lines and sort out what looks like the truth. Nevertheless, despite obvious bias, both articles below are interesting and informative.

I am fairly certain Ghana’s current oil finds were enabled by the fact that the technology now exists for deep water drilling, and the price of oil makes deep water wells economically practical. Without those two features in place, credit or blame for Ghana producing oil or not are somewhat irrelevant.

The Kufuor NPP government spent 6 years trying to put Tsatsu Tsikata in jail. They finally did near the end of their term, but he has since been released.

More recently George Owusu has encountered difficulties with the current NDC government. I am not certain about the accuracy of the information in the linked story about Kosmos’ share, dated Nov. 16. It presents a rather interesting picture of what has been happening regarding the Ghana government, Kosmos, Exxon and the Chinese.

Herewith, the two profile articles describing these giants of Ghana oil:

Oil find in Ghana – Sam Jonah Praises GNPC
16 September 2009
Sam Jonah

I have followed with keen interest the news of a commercial oil find in Ghana and the optimism that it has engendered in the country.

There is a welcome buoyancy in the mood of many Ghanaians as they look forward to being an oil-producing country.

There are many people and institutions that deserve credit for the oil find — members of staff of the GNPC through to its present staff and of course to the public that patiently supported the difficult, protracted but unavoidable exploration effort.

There is indeed enough credit to go round.

I cannot therefore help being disappointed that amidst all the celebrations, no mention is made of the pioneering role of Tsatsu Tsikata.

When I compare the exciting prospects generated by the discovery with the state of affairs 20-odd years ago, I am reminded of the contrast between the situation of the mining sector before and after the implementation of the reforms of the mid-1980s.

I first joined the board of the Minerals Commission in September 1984. At that time, the mining sector was in a parlous state.

As a result of the work done by a few dedicated people under the leadership of Kofi Ansah, the sector was completely transformed in less than a decade.

In the mining sector, we at least had the benefit of over 100 years of mining and considerable technical expertise.

The oil sector in the early 1980s did not enjoy any such stature. I recall the scepticism with which prospects of Ghana finding oil in commercial quantities was greeted at the time.

I remember in 1985, while on a trip to the U.S., asking a chief executive of one of the major oil companies why they were not showing interest in searching for oil in Ghana.

His response was that their geophysicists had told them that our geological structures were too tight and too badly faulted to host significant reservoirs.

Today, we know just how wrong those geophysicists were. One man who defied the prevailing scepticism of the time and, with a persistence bordering on stubbornness, led the efforts to get us where we are today, is Tsatsu Tsikata.

Indeed, when I shared with him, shortly after it was made, the observation by the chief executive of the oil major, Tsatsu’s response was: “Let’s all wait and see”.

Tsatsu led in the rethinking of petroleum sector policy. He led in crafting the petroleum (Exploration and Production) law that was the “investment code” for the oil sector.

He led in drafting model exploration agreements including fiscal regime and Accounting Guide that is still state-of-the-art 20 years later.

He led in the development of a specific Petroleum Income Tax Law.

Beyond this intellectual and professional contribution Tsatsu emerged as a corporate leader — building GNPC itself from the ground up.

His vision was sufficiently infectious to attract even hard-nosed oil men to work on Ghana’s potential, often with very little reward.

However, it is in his identification, recruitment and promotion of local talent that Tsatsu truly excelled.

He was truly passionate about building the capacity of Ghanaian professionals in the sector.

Companies and government’s that had dealings with GNPC were pressured into funding scholarships and providing or funding attachments for GNPC staff and even staff from related MDAs.

Tsatsu foresaw that this investment would in its own way be as valuable to Ghana as any oil find. And history has proved him right.

Today, even before the first oil has flowed, Ghana has a solid cadre of industry professionals ready, given the opportunity, to lead us into the next phase of oil industry development.

We have seasoned exploration geologists and geophysicists, drilling engineers, field development engineers.

We have specialised market and financial analysts and lawyers. In the late 1980s GNPC was already developing boat and helicopter services expertise for production operations. In the 1980s (20 years before the West African Gas Pipeline and before climate change became a global preoccupation), GNPC was training staff in the economics and management of natural gas.

Tsatsu was relentless, even obsessive, about the meticulous exploration of Ghana’s oil potential.

He recognised that geological and geophysical data were essential preconditions for any serious effort to attract private capital into exploration efforts.

He thus focused GNPC’s meagre resources on an ambitious data project.

GNPC scoured corporate and public archives around the world collecting geological and seismic materials, data and analysts from earlier exploration efforts.

GNPC then constructed the most complete database of seismic information about Ghana anywhere in the world.

Then through a joint venture with the Norwegian state oil company, GNPC seismologists began to reprocess and re-analyse this data using new technology. Tsatsu did not stop with old data.

He worked with state oil companies from Canada (Petro-Canada International), Norway (Statoil) and Brazil (Petrobras) and Nigeria (NNPC’s seismic subsidiary) to acquire new data.

Through these bilateral arrangements GNPC staff became familiar with modern technology such as “3-D” seismic surveys.

Eventually, Tsatsu persuaded these collaborators to support GNPC’s acquisition of the expensive computer technology to enable her Ghanaian explorationists to undertake much of this analysis in Ghana.

This in turn provided a platform for a massive upgrade of GNPC’s computer technology with positive impacts on all other sectors of its work and with distinct benefits for example for Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

It was the availability of this extensive database and the challenging analyses of old data by Ghanaian geophysicists working under Tsatsu that made Ghana such an attractive exploration destination in the mid-’80s despite earlier scepticism.

It was the ceaseless interpretation and re-interpretation of the GNPC’s growing geological and geophysical database inspired by and supervised by Tsatsu that identified many new prospects.

Tsatsu literally set the course of Ghana’s exploration drilling for an entire generation. Those who worked with him in the sector are in a better position than I to give further details.

But I saw enough to be able to say that his investment in institution building and in exploration have contributed immensely to the recent discoveries at Cape Three Points.

For the health of our nation, for the sake of posterity and the development of a culture that recognises selfless and dedicated service, we must all acknowledge the immense contribution that Tsatsu made to the development of the petroleum sector.

It is not too late to do so.

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History of Oil Discovery In Ghana-The EO Groups Role!!!
19 November 2009
Afrikan Post USA

Since independence it has been part of every government’s policy to explore Ghana’s hydrocarbon deposits.

Historically, exploration for oil and gas reserves in Ghana had been very limited due to the high risk nature of its terrain and low oil price environment in 2004 when the Kosmos /E.O group made initial contact with GNPC.

Between 1898 to the late nineties an estimated hundred exploration wells had been drilled in Ghana with no significant discovery except for the Saltpond oil find in 1970.

Our expert opinion on the recent oil discovery in Ghana is that it should be seen as a blessing that should serve as a catalyst to drive investment to the country.

It is imperative that we give credit to Ghanaians who have at various times facilitated the inflow of investors into Ghana.

It is an established historical fact that the US diasporans have been trail blazers of solid investment to Ghana. Tribute should be paid to Mr.Ken Ofori- Atta who established the Ghana stock exchange (Databank) in Ghana. Dr. Manny Tuffour who established the Aniwaa Hospital at a location near Kumasi, Mr. Kofi Amoah who brought Western Union to Ghana and many others in various professional disciplines.

Credit also goes to Mr.Tsatsu Tsikata, former Chief Executive of GNPC, Mr.Sekyere Abankwah, Mr. Moses Boateng and the exploration team led by Nana Boakye Asafu-Adjaye and supported by the Mr.Thomas Manu for their untiring efforts in promoting Ghana’s hydrocarbon potential overseas in the past.

In recent times some noble Ghanaian professionals who have a clear and documented track record of Humanitarian assistance to Ghana dating back to the nineties during President Rawlings era are being placed under the political radar for their roles in facilitating investment in the oil sector. Their honorable reputation is being ripped apart when factual and verifiable information is available.

Here are some facts gathered from our expert investigations into the activities of E.O Group. The E.O group is wholly owned by two Ghanaians being Mr. George Yaw Owusu and Dr. Kwame Bawuah -Edusei.

Dr. Kwame Bawuah- Edusei is a physician trained in Ghana and specialized in Family Medicine in The US. He is a known community leader who worked as a private physician partner in various medical clinics until he opened his own in Alexandria, Virginia. In 1994 he took a medical team to Ghana to work in deprived areas and small villages around the Volta Lake, Buduburam refugee camp, Nima in Accra , Akwatia Zongo and other places.

Dr.Kwame Bawuah- Edusei later initiated medical missions to the Northern parts of Ghana as a follow up.

George Owusu on the other hand is a trained Environmental scientist and worked in the energy industry for about twenty years and rose to the rank of Commodity manager for Shell oil Company in the US. He was a known community leader in Houston, Texas at the time of his retirement.

It is on record that the E.O Group partners distributed ICT equipments, books, office furniture and others to various traditional bodies to the youth in Ghana in the late 1990.

Inspite of their humanitarian efforts the partners in 1999 embarked on a job creation venture to reduce poverty. Their first business venture was the formation of E-link Inc. in 1999 to use satellite technology to transfer data between West Africa and United States. The other partners in this venture were Mr. Kwabena Darko of Darko Farms and one Mr.Yaw Sarpong. The venture folded in 2001 due to some challenges.

Mr. George Yaw Owusu and Dr. Bawuah-Edusei regrouped to form the E.O group in 2002 to focus on the potential energy industry in Ghana.

The following companies had been to Ghana for exploration activities without success: NUEVO 1998, Dana 1999, Hunt oil 1999, Fusion oil and gas from Australia in 1999, Santa Fe, 2000. Unfortunately all the wells drilled by these companies yielded no viable commercial discoveries.

The oil industry worldwide therefore regarded Ghana as a place too risky and expensive and their petroleum agreements business unfriendly. It is against this background that the E.O Group sought to convince international oil companies to come to Ghana and overcome all the biases of Africa and invest in what had become known as the “grave yard”

In 2001 with the help of the Greater Houston Partnership, a major business group in Houston, Texas dedicated to the promotion of Business between Houston, Texas companies and the rest of the world,Mr. George Owusu organized a conference in Houston to enable Ghana’s energy experts from GNPC and the Energy ministry address the industry on the offshore hydrocarbon potentials in the Country. Many companies in Texas and the rest of the World attended the conference. The E.O Group facilitated a visit to Ghana by Vanco Energy.

As a result of the E.O groups interaction with industry experts in both Ghana and the USA they stepped up their effort to find a suitable partner for a prospecting lease with the Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC). The group was able to partner with Ennex Energy of Ireland who came to Ghana but Ennex gave up on the deal as they evaluated Ghana too risky to invest. The EO group solicited interest from many companies including Texaco, Oxy, Shell, Hess, Addax Petroleum of Switzerland and the Chinese oil company but they were all reluctant due to the risk.

Talking about risk, it costs one million dollars a day to drill an oil well. It can cost up to 80 million dollars to drill one oil well.

In December 2003,Mr. George Owusu came into contact with the Technical personnel of Kosmos Energy whose primary focus was to explore for high risk petroleum prospects in Africa. This group all previously of Triton Energy found oil in Equatorial Guinea in 1999.

The E.O group and Kosmos then formed a partnership to review data in Ghana and initiate the negotiation of a Petroleum Agreement. When in 2004 the Kosmos / E.O group submitted an application for the West Cape Three Points Block, two other companies being Africa Petroleum and Sahara Petroleum submitted their applications for the same block. GNPC after the necessary due diligence approved the application from the Kosmos/E.O Group. The Kosmos /E.O Group therefore won on merit particularly due to their proven track record, financial base and the caliber of experts behind them.

The E.O Group and Kosmos on the sidelines entered into private negotiations and E.O was entitled to 3.5% working interest. They could have asked for a higher percentage in accordance with industry practice. The 3.5% is a private arrangement with Kosmos Energy and not the Ghana Government.

The agreement between Kosmos / E.O Group and GNPC was in accordance with the Ghana Petroleum Law and was approved by the GNPC Board, the ministry of Energy, and upon approval by Cabinet was presented for ratification by Parliament in July 2004.

Neither of the partners of the E.O group, Dr. Kwame Bawuah-Edusei and Mr.George Yaw Owusu were party nor Government officials during these negotiations till approval in July 2004.

It took the Kosmos /EO Group three years from agreement signing in 2004 to oil find in the deep waters of Ghana in June 2007 which is now a record in Africa. It is also possibly one of the largest oil finds in the last decade offshore West Africa

All the four wells drilled by the Kosmos/E.O group encountered significant accumulation of hydrocarbons.

Later in 2006 Kosmos Energy added Anadarko Energy as partner to the WTCP block.

It is worth noting that after the negotiations and agreement was signed in July 2004 Dr. Kwame Bawuah-Edusei sacrificed and took an appointment as Ambassador to UN in Geneva, Switzerland/Austria in August 2004 and in September 2006 he was made Ambassador to the United States.

As a physician in the Diaspora it was a big pay cut. His duty tour ended on February 15, 2009. Within these five years the E.O group had been inactive and Mr. George Owusu had taken over the few affairs of the Group.

Dr. Kwame Bawuah-Edusei who a very respected and influential personality within the Ghanaian community has gone back to his medical practice in the Washington Metro Area. He has also moved back to the House he purchased about fourteen years ago where he lived before his appointment as Ambassador.

Our expect investigations have also revealed that Anadarko, one of the partners in the Jubilee field waited till oil discovery and requested a comprehensive review of Kosmos and the E.O group’s operations which both partners gave their maximum cooperation. The New Government in Ghana has also conducted their review which E.O Group has fully been cooperative. Prior to Dr.Kwame Bawuah-Edusei’s appointment he was in no doubt screened by Ghana, Swiss, Austria, United Nations and the United States security apparatus with a clean record. His tenure in the US was exemplary. The E.O Group has thus been transparent in all their activities.

Considering the undeniable facts in the midst of the political rumblings on the activities of the E.O group I believe the Government of Ghana should round it up and take a positive stance in ensuring that the Country would leap to a middle income status.

There is no need to politicize the good intentions of our honorable citizens because it makes it a disincentive to future investment prospects. Ghanaians living in the Diaspora have been involved in life saving events in Ghana and their efforts must be applauded.

Let us not crisscross corporate greed and misplaced politics to mar our God given potentials.

The E.O Group participation solidifies local content and must be lauded in our efforts to promote long and sustainable investment in Ghana.
ODJAH 10 years ago

POOR GHANAINS OF ALL THE ARGUMENTS AND COMMENTS YOU HAVE MADE ON THIS SUBJECT HAVE YOU ASKLED WHAT PERCENTAGE DO GHANA GET OUT OF THIS OIL FIND. I AM NOT GOING TO WRITE PAGES ON IT . WE ONLY GET LESS THAN 10% PLUS A BOTTLE ...
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POOR GHANAINS OF ALL THE ARGUMENTS AND COMMENTS YOU HAVE MADE ON THIS SUBJECT HAVE YOU ASKLED WHAT PERCENTAGE DO GHANA GET OUT OF THIS OIL FIND. I AM NOT GOING TO WRITE PAGES ON IT . WE ONLY GET LESS THAN 10% PLUS A BOTTLE OF SCHNAPPS NOW SIT DOWN AND PUT ON YOUR THINKING CAPS AND START ASKING QUESTIONS
KNYC (USMC) 10 years ago

BY the way I can tell you where I live, and you will greeted by my AR15.

BY the way I can tell you where I live, and you will greeted by my AR15.
Counsellor 10 years ago

Both Tsatsu and Jonah should be recognized by all Ghanaians for their immense contributions in oil exploration in Ghana.

Both Tsatsu and Jonah should be recognized by all Ghanaians for their immense contributions in oil exploration in Ghana.
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

It was Kwame Nkrumah who founded the oil
for the nation not the ex-convict Tsikata.

During the administration of Kwame Nkrumah, he sighted the oil for this nation and even appointed Mr. E.I. Preko as Fuel and Power Minist ...
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It was Kwame Nkrumah who founded the oil
for the nation not the ex-convict Tsikata.

During the administration of Kwame Nkrumah, he sighted the oil for this nation and even appointed Mr. E.I. Preko as Fuel and Power Minister with
his Ministry as Minister of Fuel and
Power.

It will so foolish and senselessly
Cow, if Jonah Sam another NDC crook
comes out to say it was Tsikata who
founded oil for this country is a liar
and no one should listen to him.
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

Dr. Kwame Nkrumah who sighted the oil
not tsikata.

Dr. Kwame Nkrumah who sighted the oil
not tsikata.
JOHNNY 10 years ago

THE GREAT OSAGYEFO NKRUMAH LAID THE FOUNDATION OF OIL DISCOVERY IN GHANA.HE INITIATED NUMEROUS SEISMOLOGICAL SURVEYS AND HE WAS CONVINCED THAT GHANA WAS GOING TO STRIKE OIL, HE SET UP THE TEMA OIL REFINERY BECAUSL HE WANTED ...
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THE GREAT OSAGYEFO NKRUMAH LAID THE FOUNDATION OF OIL DISCOVERY IN GHANA.HE INITIATED NUMEROUS SEISMOLOGICAL SURVEYS AND HE WAS CONVINCED THAT GHANA WAS GOING TO STRIKE OIL, HE SET UP THE TEMA OIL REFINERY BECAUSL HE WANTED GHANA TO ENJOY THE BENEFITS OF REFINING OUR CRUDE OIL LOCALLY INSTEAD OF CARTING OUR CRUDE OIL ABROAD FOR REFINING.
NKRUMAH NEVER DIES.
nii 10 years ago

is good news man bravo. i dont understand why a fellow can take ones effort and pay him with shame. k4 is a shame to ghana and akans aaaaaah, indeed npps are wicked especially ashantis. is only ashantis who celebrates the dea ...
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is good news man bravo. i dont understand why a fellow can take ones effort and pay him with shame. k4 is a shame to ghana and akans aaaaaah, indeed npps are wicked especially ashantis. is only ashantis who celebrates the death of some one beautiful foooools.
OBIBINI 10 years ago

You are a big fool to describe Mr Sam Jonah as a crook.If not because of politics who are you to insult him.You are a donkey and a cow.Using the Ghanaweb does not give you the licence to spew foul words.

You are a big fool to describe Mr Sam Jonah as a crook.If not because of politics who are you to insult him.You are a donkey and a cow.Using the Ghanaweb does not give you the licence to spew foul words.
Cantankerous 10 years ago

People have right to express their views .Anyone using the web to express an opinion must be prepared to provoke all sorts of reactions including ones that may be deemed insulting or very inflammatory. That is the nature of t ...
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People have right to express their views .Anyone using the web to express an opinion must be prepared to provoke all sorts of reactions including ones that may be deemed insulting or very inflammatory. That is the nature of the web.It is probably fair to say that 70-80% of the contributions made on Ghanaweb forums are farcical and nonsensical. A fair proportion of the articles that appear on Ghanaweb are a joke.
KNYC (USMC) 10 years ago

Fucking Otuo, I burn his ass. The moron want to talk shit. Where I have been you can't make it over there. Check the name USMC, that tell you who I am. We been to Iraq and back.

Fucking Otuo, I burn his ass. The moron want to talk shit. Where I have been you can't make it over there. Check the name USMC, that tell you who I am. We been to Iraq and back.
PAA KWAO 10 years ago

WHAT IS HIS NOBLE FOR?AND WHAT IS KVIP? USELESS ARTICLE.

WHAT IS HIS NOBLE FOR?AND WHAT IS KVIP? USELESS ARTICLE.
ATTA MESS NOW JOHN MESS 10 years ago

WHEN WAS THIS WRITTEN?
OLD NEWS BEING RECYCLED ,,,TIME HAS MADE NONSENSE OF THIS ARTICLE AS TSATSU WAS FOUND TO HAVE RATHER MISAPPROPRIATED FUNDS WHICH COULD HAVE GONE INTO FURTHER DEVELOPING GNPC.

WHEN WAS THIS WRITTEN?
OLD NEWS BEING RECYCLED ,,,TIME HAS MADE NONSENSE OF THIS ARTICLE AS TSATSU WAS FOUND TO HAVE RATHER MISAPPROPRIATED FUNDS WHICH COULD HAVE GONE INTO FURTHER DEVELOPING GNPC.
Kojo T 10 years ago

Had tsikata comefromOseikrom , there will be a different tune . Shame on all of you Give praise where praise is due

Had tsikata comefromOseikrom , there will be a different tune . Shame on all of you Give praise where praise is due
Otuo Ampah 10 years ago

I hope the greedy kuffour and his she male judge lover will read this.God punish you and all those who try to hide the truth from well meaning ghanaians.

I hope the greedy kuffour and his she male judge lover will read this.God punish you and all those who try to hide the truth from well meaning ghanaians.
CARDINAL 10 years ago

Stop being a fool because this is a copy and paste article that also praised the EO group for contributing to the discovery of oil but your stupid NDC radio station wants to redeem the Mahama failing administration by claimi ...
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Stop being a fool because this is a copy and paste article that also praised the EO group for contributing to the discovery of oil but your stupid NDC radio station wants to redeem the Mahama failing administration by claiming credit where it did not sow.

Why did Tsatsu not discover oil in his twenty years plus as GNPC CEO?
Nyansasem 10 years ago

I read it on somewhere that he said this five years ago. This is it.

www.modernghana.com/news/185086/1/oil-find-in-ghana-sam-jonah-praises-gnpc.html

Oil find in Ghana - Sam Jonah Praises GNPC

By DAILY GRAPHIC

6 Oc ...
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I read it on somewhere that he said this five years ago. This is it.

www.modernghana.com/news/185086/1/oil-find-in-ghana-sam-jonah-praises-gnpc.html

Oil find in Ghana - Sam Jonah Praises GNPC

By DAILY GRAPHIC

6 October 2008

I have followed with keen interest the news of a commercial oil find in Ghana and the optimism that it has engendered in the country.

There is a welcome buoyancy in the mood of many Ghanaians as they look forward to being an oil-producing country.

There are many people and institutions that deserve credit for the oil find members of staff of the GNPC through to its present staff and of course to the public that patiently supported the difficult, protracted but unavoidable exploration effort.

There is indeed enough credit to go round.

I cannot therefore help being disappointed that amidst all the celebrations, no mention is made of the pioneering role of Tsatsu Tsikata.

When I compare the exciting prospects generated by the discovery with the state of affairs 20-odd years ago, I am reminded of the contrast between the situation of the mining sector before and after the implementation of the reforms of the mid-1980s.

I first joined the board of the Minerals Commission in September 1984. At that time, the mining sector was in a parlous state.

As a result of the work done by a few dedicated people under the leadership of Kofi Ansah, the sector was completely transformed in less than a decade.

In the mining sector, we at least had the benefit of over 100 years of mining and considerable technical expertise.

The oil sector in the early 1980s did not enjoy any such stature. I recall the scepticism with which prospects of Ghana finding oil in commercial quantities was greeted at the time.

I remember in 1985, while on a trip to the U.S., asking a chief executive of one of the major oil companies why they were not showing interest in searching for oil in Ghana.

His response was that their geophysicists had told them that our geological structures were too tight and too badly faulted to host significant reservoirs.

Today, we know just how wrong those geophysicists were. One man who defied the prevailing scepticism of the time and, with a persistence bordering on stubbornness, led the efforts to get us where we are today, is Tsatsu Tsikata.

Indeed, when I shared with him, shortly after it was made, the observation by the chief executive of the oil major, Tsatsu's response was: "Let's all wait and see".

Tsatsu led in the rethinking of petroleum sector policy.

He led in crafting the petroleum (Exploration and Production) law that was the "investment code" for the oil sector.

He led in drafting model exploration agreements including fiscal regime and Accounting Guide that is still state-of-the-art 20 years later.

He led in the development of a specific Petroleum Income Tax Law.

Beyond this intellectual and professional contribution Tsatsu emerged as a corporate leader building GNPC itself from the ground up.

His vision was sufficiently infectious to attract even hard-nosed oil men to work on Ghana's potential, often with very little reward.

However, it is in his identification, recruitment and promotion of local talent that Tsatsu truly excelled.

He was truly passionate about building the capacity of Ghanaian professionals in the sector.

Companies and government's that had dealings with GNPC were pressured into funding scholarships and providing or funding attachments for GNPC staff and even staff from related MDAs.

Tsatsu foresaw that this investment would in its own way be as valuable to Ghana as any oil find. And history has proved him right.

Today, even before the first oil has flowed, Ghana has a solid cadre of industry professionals ready, given the opportunity, to lead us into the next phase of oil industry development.

We have seasoned exploration geologists and geophysicists, drilling engineers, field development engineers.

We have specialised market and financial analysts and lawyers. In the late 1980s GNPC was already developing boat and helicopter services expertise for production operations.

In the 1980s (20 years before the West African Gas Pipeline and before climate change became a global preoccupation), GNPC was training staff in the economics and management of natural gas.

Tsatsu was relentless, even obsessive, about the meticulous exploration of Ghana's oil potential.

He recognised that geological and geophysical data were essential preconditions for any serious effort to attract private capital into exploration efforts.

He thus focused GNPC's meagre resources on an ambitious data project.

GNPC scoured corporate and public archives around the world collecting geological and seismic materials, data and analysts from earlier exploration efforts.

GNPC then constructed the most complete database of seismic information about Ghana anywhere in the world.

Then through a joint venture with the Norwegian state oil company, GNPC seismologists began to reprocess and re-analyse this data using new technology. Tsatsu did not stop with old data.

He worked with state oil companies from Canada (Petro-Canada International), Norway (Statoil) and Brazil (Petrobras) and Nigeria (NNPC's seismic subsidiary) to acquire new data.

Through these bilateral arrangements GNPC staff became familiar with modern technology such as "3-D" seismic surveys.

Eventually, Tsatsu persuaded these collaborators to support GNPC's acquisition of the expensive computer technology to enable her Ghanaian explorationists to undertake much of this analysis in Ghana.

This in turn provided a platform for a massive upgrade of GNPC's computer technology with positive impacts on all other sectors of its work and with distinct benefits for example for Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

It was the availability of this extensive database and the challenging analyses of old data by Ghanaian geophysicists working under Tsatsu that made Ghana such an attractive exploration destination in the mid-'80s despite earlier scepticism.

It was the ceaseless interpretation and re-interpretation of the GNPC's growing geological and geophysical database inspired by and supervised by Tsatsu that identified many new prospects.

Tsatsu literally set the course of Ghana's exploration drilling for an entire generation.

Those who worked with him in the sector are in a better position than I to give further details.

But I saw enough to be able to say that his investment in institution building and in exploration have contributed immensely to the recent discoveries at Cape Three Points.

For the health of our nation, for the sake of posterity and the development of a culture that recognises selfless and dedicated service, we must all acknowledge the immense contribution that Tsatsu made to the development of the petroleum sector.

It is not too late to do so.
Kweku Tawiah 10 years ago

Thank you, Nyansasam! Truth stands ! I ask again. Who are behind this dubious republication of a 5 year old article and why? The omission to indicate the actual time of the first publication smacks of mischief and intellectua ...
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Thank you, Nyansasam! Truth stands ! I ask again. Who are behind this dubious republication of a 5 year old article and why? The omission to indicate the actual time of the first publication smacks of mischief and intellectual dishonesty ! Desperate propaganda by desperate people, I repeat !
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

Thief kufour Gov, deliberately and unlawfully abrogated WOYOME'S contract just b'cos he WOYOME is NOT AN Akans period. WOYOME deserved every penny of that money.

Thief kufour Gov, deliberately and unlawfully abrogated WOYOME'S contract just b'cos he WOYOME is NOT AN Akans period. WOYOME deserved every penny of that money.
GHANAS CANCER=UGLY ASHANTIS 10 years ago

I HOPE K4 AND HIS GROUP OF CRIMINAL NPP POLITICIANS WILL BE ANGRY WITH THESE REVELATION FROM NO OTHER MAN THAN SAM JONAH HIMSELF

I HOPE K4 AND HIS GROUP OF CRIMINAL NPP POLITICIANS WILL BE ANGRY WITH THESE REVELATION FROM NO OTHER MAN THAN SAM JONAH HIMSELF
agaagya 10 years ago

Dummies corner !

Dummies corner !
KNYC (USMC) 10 years ago

In business world we have what we call P-O-L-C which is Planning, Organizing, leading, and Controlling. Tell me which part has he played in any of Ghana's organization. You call that Noble. His legacy will have shown in Obuas ...
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In business world we have what we call P-O-L-C which is Planning, Organizing, leading, and Controlling. Tell me which part has he played in any of Ghana's organization. You call that Noble. His legacy will have shown in Obuasi, he should have been a case study in business world. You backward self.
Nana G 10 years ago

You morons and intrinsic illiterates KNYC and co. The facts are that Tsatsu pioneered the oil exploration we all taut in Gh today, just as Sir Jonah said. mr. Moses Agyei Mensah Aboagye, the late Mr. Cato-Brown, Mr. Honu and ...
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You morons and intrinsic illiterates KNYC and co. The facts are that Tsatsu pioneered the oil exploration we all taut in Gh today, just as Sir Jonah said. mr. Moses Agyei Mensah Aboagye, the late Mr. Cato-Brown, Mr. Honu and co are all great pioneers (one of who incidentally happens to be my biological father, though I disagree with his political affiliation). Mr. Jonah has done nothing, you apriori retards say? The least he did was to elevate Gh and Gh's stock market over the globe and inspire some of us into management science today. mo nkwasiasem and senselessness online only show your failure as rational thinking beings. Thanks,Mr. Jonah, and please pardon this Vandal's use of harsh words against these low heads here...Tsatsu and dada Aboagye amy not be my political parallels, but they are my parents, pioneers, and role models just as you are, sir. Thanks
KNYC (USMC) 10 years ago

Moron, who is talking about Tsatsu, I am not talking about Tsatsu. God bless Tsatsu. I am talking about Jonah. Read, this is the reason why people get blow off. Read my feed.

Moron, who is talking about Tsatsu, I am not talking about Tsatsu. God bless Tsatsu. I am talking about Jonah. Read, this is the reason why people get blow off. Read my feed.
GHANAS CANCER=UGLY ASHANTIS 10 years ago

APART FROM LOCAL MUSIC ASHANTIS AS A TRIBE CANNOT REALLY BOOST OF MASTERING ANY THING IN GHANA,ACADEMICALLY ASHANTIS ARE THE LAST TRIBE IN GHANA NO WONDER THEIR SO CALLED LAWYERS CANT EVEN SPEAK GOOD ENGLISH OR DONT EVEN HAVE ...
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APART FROM LOCAL MUSIC ASHANTIS AS A TRIBE CANNOT REALLY BOOST OF MASTERING ANY THING IN GHANA,ACADEMICALLY ASHANTIS ARE THE LAST TRIBE IN GHANA NO WONDER THEIR SO CALLED LAWYERS CANT EVEN SPEAK GOOD ENGLISH OR DONT EVEN HAVE CREDIBLLE CERTIFICATES.
KNYC (USMC) 10 years ago

I am Proud Ashanti.

I am Proud Ashanti.
agaagya 10 years ago

because you benefited over his corruption you can never say anything bad against him,you enjoy his booty.What about rest of us, we will continue to write against those loose human beings and their useless accolades.

because you benefited over his corruption you can never say anything bad against him,you enjoy his booty.What about rest of us, we will continue to write against those loose human beings and their useless accolades.
Tbb 10 years ago

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KNYC (USMC) 10 years ago

You can say all what you want. If I don't have nothing I will not living in Manhattan, my rent is by Sq feet. looking over central Park. Top that. You backward. What do you know about business world.

You can say all what you want. If I don't have nothing I will not living in Manhattan, my rent is by Sq feet. looking over central Park. Top that. You backward. What do you know about business world.
Kojo 10 years ago

I thought you were going to say "your house overlooks central park". My brother, you are making someone rich with 75% of your income just to brag that you live in Manhattan. Is this an achievement?

I thought you were going to say "your house overlooks central park". My brother, you are making someone rich with 75% of your income just to brag that you live in Manhattan. Is this an achievement?
KNYC (USMC) 10 years ago

Forget about where I live.

Forget about where I live.
Emperor 10 years ago

My bruda living in manhattan is not an achievement I on the akuapem mountings and among my people

My bruda living in manhattan is not an achievement I on the akuapem mountings and among my people
Kojo 10 years ago

Ok, he inspired you into management science and........what are you doing with it? CEO of Ghana? Employed 1000 people in Ghana? I don't get the logic. This man has done nothing for Ghana,except when it benefits him.

Ok, he inspired you into management science and........what are you doing with it? CEO of Ghana? Employed 1000 people in Ghana? I don't get the logic. This man has done nothing for Ghana,except when it benefits him.
GHANAS CANCER=UGLY ASHANTIS 10 years ago

NOW NPP AND UGLY ASHANTIS WILL STOP GIVING TRIBAL AND PARTY CREDIT TO UGLY AND CRIMINAL K4 4 BEING THE BRAIN BEHIND GHANAS OIL STORY,U SEE THE EWES JUST LIKE THE OTHER TRIBES DONT BELIEVE IN TALKING OR GENERATING NOISE. ASHAN ...
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NOW NPP AND UGLY ASHANTIS WILL STOP GIVING TRIBAL AND PARTY CREDIT TO UGLY AND CRIMINAL K4 4 BEING THE BRAIN BEHIND GHANAS OIL STORY,U SEE THE EWES JUST LIKE THE OTHER TRIBES DONT BELIEVE IN TALKING OR GENERATING NOISE. ASHANTIS WOULD HAVE PUBLISHED A BOOK ON THE OIL EXPLORATION GIVING ALL CREDIT TO K4 AND THE ASHANTIS,SAM JONAH THAX 4 SETTHING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT ONCE AND 4EVER.
Robert C. Koffie. 10 years ago

Ihope we should very decourous about the comments we make of people in this country. We should be our bros keeper so that there should be peace in this world.

Ihope we should very decourous about the comments we make of people in this country. We should be our bros keeper so that there should be peace in this world.
GHANAS CANCER=UGLY ASHANTIS 10 years ago

THANK YOU SAM JONAH ASHANTIS WOULD HAVE PUT THEIR NAMES ON THE OIL DISCOVERY AS THEY HAVE DONE 4 ALREADY BY GIVING THE CREDIT TO K4 THE FAKE AND ILLITERATE LAWYER

THANK YOU SAM JONAH ASHANTIS WOULD HAVE PUT THEIR NAMES ON THE OIL DISCOVERY AS THEY HAVE DONE 4 ALREADY BY GIVING THE CREDIT TO K4 THE FAKE AND ILLITERATE LAWYER
OGOGLO QUARTER 10 years ago

THE KUMASIANOS NEVER MENTIONED TSATSU"ANTS" NAME.AYIKO TO ALL PARTIES INVOLVED.EVEN UNCLE ATTAH....

THE KUMASIANOS NEVER MENTIONED TSATSU"ANTS" NAME.AYIKO TO ALL PARTIES INVOLVED.EVEN UNCLE ATTAH....
When Will They Ever Learn 10 years ago

Okay,Mr.Tsatsu Tsikata pioneered oil discovery
granted.How did Kufour and EO group got the
hefty share of the pie?Is this the case of Bamboo de
work monkey de chop? Please explain.I am
confused.

Okay,Mr.Tsatsu Tsikata pioneered oil discovery
granted.How did Kufour and EO group got the
hefty share of the pie?Is this the case of Bamboo de
work monkey de chop? Please explain.I am
confused.
USA 10 years ago

This man is an asswhole +motherfucker you sold ashanti gold and bought shares to be a consultant to the company that bought it. You are now coming to tell us the exconvict deserve some praise. you are a damm fool kwashia

This man is an asswhole +motherfucker you sold ashanti gold and bought shares to be a consultant to the company that bought it. You are now coming to tell us the exconvict deserve some praise. you are a damm fool kwashia
KNYC (USMC) 10 years ago

USA, only people like you with proactive ideas know best. This man is a JOKER. He only think about himself. Look at Obuasi, and he call himself CEO. I will not give him ShitEO.

USA, only people like you with proactive ideas know best. This man is a JOKER. He only think about himself. Look at Obuasi, and he call himself CEO. I will not give him ShitEO.
Agyeman. 10 years ago

The uncomfortable truth is our mineral wealth makes us worse as a nation.Check out the non mineral economies of Morocco,Singapore,Sweden vs basketcases of mineral rich Ghana,DRC, Nigeria and tell me that mineral wealth is rea ...
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The uncomfortable truth is our mineral wealth makes us worse as a nation.Check out the non mineral economies of Morocco,Singapore,Sweden vs basketcases of mineral rich Ghana,DRC, Nigeria and tell me that mineral wealth is really an asset.What Ghana needs to mine more than minerals is its human assets if it is to overcome poverty,diseases and poor sanitation.Just havin mineral wealth is useless.Ghana's mineral wealth is akin to a farmer who has lots of fruits but has neither the machinery nor the knowhow,the will or marketing skills to turn his fruits into juice and mountains of cash.The fact that our minerals are mined by foreigners illustrates our impotence in skills.
Counsellor 10 years ago

My friend an overhaul of agriculture, value addition to all natural resources Ghana has today and export diversification platforms will jump start the Ghanaian economy. Selling natural resource raw, creates jobs and wealth el ...
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My friend an overhaul of agriculture, value addition to all natural resources Ghana has today and export diversification platforms will jump start the Ghanaian economy. Selling natural resource raw, creates jobs and wealth elsewhere at the expense of Ghana. Relevant skills in Ghana will make this process a possibility.
Vuvuzela 10 years ago

"My friend an overhaul of agriculture, value addition to all natural resources Ghana has today and export diversification platforms will jump start the Ghanaian economy."

Not quite! Unless there's a clear and distinguishin ...
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"My friend an overhaul of agriculture, value addition to all natural resources Ghana has today and export diversification platforms will jump start the Ghanaian economy."

Not quite! Unless there's a clear and distinguishing managerial policy and monitoring techniques to make it sustainable, flanked by honest and stringent legal backing, like everything else, it won't amount to much
The Rural daugther 10 years ago

No matter people do, the truth is like a coke it cannot stay down even if it is pressed dowm by a million kilogramm of yams or cassava. Kudos Tsatsu. Posteruty shall judge you. Do not worry about their recognition, God has al ...
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No matter people do, the truth is like a coke it cannot stay down even if it is pressed dowm by a million kilogramm of yams or cassava. Kudos Tsatsu. Posteruty shall judge you. Do not worry about their recognition, God has already recognized you that is why he made no mean a person than Sam Jonah to demand that you are recognized after laying bare the facts and chronicle leading to the oil find. Ayeekoo!!!!!!!
Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah 10 years ago

Sam Jonah you are a big thief and disgrace to the Akan ethnicity and the Republic of Ghana, this corrupt Sam Jonah sold Ashanti Goldfields to the stupid dirty.White people just for a stupid stinking KBE medal (Most Excellent ...
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Sam Jonah you are a big thief and disgrace to the Akan ethnicity and the Republic of Ghana, this corrupt Sam Jonah sold Ashanti Goldfields to the stupid dirty.White people just for a stupid stinking KBE medal (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Medal) from the stinking ugly white peoples Queen Elizabeth II. Ashanti Goldfields Company was state owned by the Republic of Ghana and Ashanti Goldfields Company was the 3rd biggest Gold Company in the World before this "corrupt stupid black neo-colonist Sam Jonah" sold Ashanti Goldfields to the stinking White people at Anglo Gold and the second big thief and disgrace to the Akan ethnicity and the Republic of Ghana John Agyekum Kufuor like a corrupt stupid black neo-colonists sold the state owned Ghana Telecom and Jubilee Oil Field along with all of Ghana's state owned Oil (Petroleum) to the stinking dirty White people at Vodafone and Tullow Oil.

When anybody abuses and talks about Ashantis they are also abusing and talking about Akans and "Ethnic Akans".

Akans and "Ethnic Akans" are the "native ethnic group" and "largest ethnic group" of South Ghana (as in North Sudan and South Sudan / North Ghana and South Ghana).

Akans generate all the wealth and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Ghana. If Ashantis who majorly comprise the "Akan ethnic group" native to "South Ghana" decide to succeed from Ghana with their Oil (Petroleum), Gold and Cocoa, and then create their own country of "South Ghana", then Ghana will immediatly be no more and "fail to exist".

Then you very tibalistic uninformed "North Ghana" and "Ewes" of "Volta region-Togoland-Togo" can go join your "ethnic Ewe kinsmen and Ewe people in Togo" where the Ewe ethnic group belongs and then swim in mass poverty in "Volta region-Togoland-Togo" very tibalistic uninformed "Ewes" and "Volta region-Togoland-Republic of Togo".

There will not be any civil war in Ghana if "Nana Akuffo-Addo" is "Installed as President of Ghana" because the Akan people and "Ethnic Akans" who make up 99% of the population of "South Ghana" and over 70% of the population of Ghana never ever unwisely voted for NDC (National Democratic Congress) or for the Killer of John Atta Mills, illiterate, uneducated thief, corrupted vote rigger John Dramani Mahama.
Counsellor 10 years ago

Your rhetoric is full of half truths. You do not own southern Ghana and so take that out of the picture. You and your cohort do not generate the entire GDP of Ghana. Do you know the components of the GDP of Ghana? If you sece ...
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Your rhetoric is full of half truths. You do not own southern Ghana and so take that out of the picture. You and your cohort do not generate the entire GDP of Ghana. Do you know the components of the GDP of Ghana? If you secede you and your cohort will be landlocked till eternity. You brag for nothing. You will not have access to the sea. Continue to stay in your dreamland. Akans are not destined to rule Ghana and you better get that in your head!
Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah 10 years ago

Akans are the natives of South Ghana and generate most of Ghana's $48 billion Gross Domestic Product (GDP), while Accra and Greater Accra Region contributes only $3 billion. The whole of North Ghana contributes only $2 billio ...
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Akans are the natives of South Ghana and generate most of Ghana's $48 billion Gross Domestic Product (GDP), while Accra and Greater Accra Region contributes only $3 billion. The whole of North Ghana contributes only $2 billion, and the Volta Region contributes $1 billion.

Akans are destined to rule their historic lands of South Ghana which includes: the Brong-Ahafo Region, Ashanti Region, Eastern Region, Western Region and Central Region, so Akans forming their "own country of South Ghana" would not be landlocked but rather better off.
Sarkodie 10 years ago

What have you contributed personally?

What have you contributed personally?
AWAL POUNDSTERLING 10 years ago

It seems you have no clues of what you were saying.The Alans in Ghana are only 49 percent now.your statement has alienated non akans into the npp party.

It seems you have no clues of what you were saying.The Alans in Ghana are only 49 percent now.your statement has alienated non akans into the npp party.
Ken 10 years ago

Thank you Mr Jonah God bless you for coming out to write what you know you are brave man

Thank you Mr Jonah God bless you for coming out to write what you know you are brave man
Gawuga 10 years ago

Attention seeker seeking favours from every govt of the day

Attention seeker seeking favours from every govt of the day
Gawuga 10 years ago

Look what you've done to Obuase township

Look what you've done to Obuase township
Gawuga 10 years ago

Has the oil find made any difference to ordinary Ghanaians?

Has the oil find made any difference to ordinary Ghanaians?
Kofi Ampaasem 10 years ago

It is high time Ghana acknowledges Her living legends. Thank you Sir Jonah for reminding us all about Mr Tsatsu's work. We need more reminders

It is high time Ghana acknowledges Her living legends. Thank you Sir Jonah for reminding us all about Mr Tsatsu's work. We need more reminders
kofi amenu 10 years ago

this the second time mr jonah has said it as it is . nipa ye adea ose ayeyi. se won yinayei men sei ni din.

this the second time mr jonah has said it as it is . nipa ye adea ose ayeyi. se won yinayei men sei ni din.
Africa 10 years ago

Tsatsu Tsikata can never take credit for the oil find even if he has supporters like yourself. You neglected to mention Tsatsu Tsikata's role in the "kangaroo courts" that sentenced honest hard working Ghanaians to long pris ...
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Tsatsu Tsikata can never take credit for the oil find even if he has supporters like yourself. You neglected to mention Tsatsu Tsikata's role in the "kangaroo courts" that sentenced honest hard working Ghanaians to long prison sentences. The reminder were subjected to all sorts of harsh treatment even though they could not be imprisioned. Have we all forgotten the judges. Have we also forgotten his role in imposing the miscreant and misfit "Rawlings" on us for 20 years. How can we sing his praises. The acid test of all of this after all his noise is that he was not the one who found the oil. This argument that the information he gathered is what resulted in the oil discovery is nonsense and we must all see through this one. We are all tired of Tsastu and he got what he deserved when he jailed and I think he should never have been released. How many have suffered of his mischief and meddling in our body politic. History will be the judge of all of this.
Vuvuzela 10 years ago

If a person deserves jail, why should he be given presidential pardon, if the president is convinced of that person being guilty?

You think Kufuor would have released Tsatsu if NPP had won the 2008 elections? Kufuor was a ...
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If a person deserves jail, why should he be given presidential pardon, if the president is convinced of that person being guilty?

You think Kufuor would have released Tsatsu if NPP had won the 2008 elections? Kufuor was afraid of retribution. He was the crook of the worst species.
km agyin 10 years ago

I want to reiterate Sam Jonah's concern about we as a nation not used to recognizing such services to our nation without political undertones. What baffles me is the NPP government under President Kuffour never publicly ackno ...
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I want to reiterate Sam Jonah's concern about we as a nation not used to recognizing such services to our nation without political undertones. What baffles me is the NPP government under President Kuffour never publicly acknowledged Tsatsu for his efforts.
Vuvuzela 10 years ago

Kufuor thought Tsatsu was enemy and enemies aren't deserving of anything, even a small recognition. Sad, isn't it? That's what the black man looks like; dark in heart.

Kufuor thought Tsatsu was enemy and enemies aren't deserving of anything, even a small recognition. Sad, isn't it? That's what the black man looks like; dark in heart.
Alhassan 10 years ago

You lot who come to the forum to insult honourable people of Ghana who have been successful in their chosen careers what have you achieved in your life?

You lot who come to the forum to insult honourable people of Ghana who have been successful in their chosen careers what have you achieved in your life?
Kwame 10 years ago

All good and fine but Tsatsu was very tribalistic in employing Non-Ewes even though they were better or equally qualified as the ewes. Please you can find out our self from the records.

All good and fine but Tsatsu was very tribalistic in employing Non-Ewes even though they were better or equally qualified as the ewes. Please you can find out our self from the records.
ANDY 10 years ago

Tsatsu is a gift from God to Ghana.Lets honour him with a national award.

Tsatsu is a gift from God to Ghana.Lets honour him with a national award.
Yaw Graham 10 years ago

PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM OUR OIL.
YROM GOLD ,NOW OIL. GREEDY BASTARDS.

PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM OUR OIL.
YROM GOLD ,NOW OIL. GREEDY BASTARDS.
Charles 10 years ago

Thank God for truth

Thank God for truth
NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

Sir, I am not at all surprised that you still have the nerve to come back to Ghanaians and discuss our oil find……I’m not sure if this article is old or not but, it’s worth commenting on, in order to enlighten some of ...
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Sir, I am not at all surprised that you still have the nerve to come back to Ghanaians and discuss our oil find……I’m not sure if this article is old or not but, it’s worth commenting on, in order to enlighten some of the Ghanaian populace and the educated illiterates.

Such a title, ‘Sir’ as you well know, speaks volumes indeed. It is an honour given to subjects of the UK who go beyond themselves to provide innovations-riches, fame and pride to the UK. It used to be for the empire……(I hope you get my drift).

But unfortunately you, together with your cronies were rewarded for appeasing and pleasing your colonial masters by running Ashanti Goldfields (AG) down, to the detriment of our children and the future of our beloved nation. You were rewarded with failure, incompetence and corruption with praise and adulation.

You Mr. Jonah, was entrusted with the management of the one of the few African companies listed globally, and you did not only underperform but also brought the company to its knees through rogue trading. Shareholders lost everything they believed in, by investing into this hype of yours, together with your cronies (the Joyce Aryees, Rawlings and the Kuffuors) and your colonial masters in the shape of Tiny Rowland. What a patriotic citizen you are!

It’s a shame we are a nation that rewards failure and fails to bring the likes of you and your cronies to book.

You! Mr. Jonah, deliberately run Ashanti Goldfields - our national heritage, pride and priceless resource to the ground to aid the merger of AG and AngloGold with the help of Tiny Rowland then the boss of Lonhro. Of which you were once again worked for – yes! I mean AngloGold Ashanti. The ‘Ashanti’ now goes behind your colonial masters ‘Anglo’. Yes! I know our educated illiterates cannot read anything into this. What a shame!

In 2008, with your cronies in place……I mean in government, you made your move to do just that, leaving our citizens with shares worth nothing! Do you remember when spewed these words in 2008 or there and about? - “the objective of any government should be the provision of better quality of life for the citizenry.”

If I may ask you sir! What did you do for any of the gold mining areas? Let alone AG workers – and their living conditions? You did not only destroy our environment in Obuasi and other places where AG operates but, also destroyed the finance and mining base of Ghana.

With the help of your cronies from the then PNDC era through to the NPP till this present government you managed to run our heritage down and reduced it to a bare minimum; of which Ghana now receives less than 3% for the sale of our national heritage – GOLD………under your watch at AG, there was a loss of $570 million (and possibly more) due to rogue activities……..Not forgetting Ghana Airways too. What a waste!

It is very sad to see how our so-called leaders with the help of you have driven our dear nation, with its rich resources to the ground and keep on drumming up the ‘poverty mantra’ to the hearing of our citizens……… to continually keep us poor mentally; whilst the like of Sam Jonah are filtering away our rich natural resources to enrich themselves to the detriment of our children. Yes! Our children – please take a trip to Obuasi and many other minig areas……………….

Ghana is very rich! And rich indeed! We are richer than most of those nations who claim to be giving us aid. The IMFs and the World Banks are designed to manipulate us into believing that they are there to help us.

Unfortunately, our colonialist system of education has not and will not free our minds to even understand who we have or who we really are and the power/riches we have to live for ourselves – without the need for aid and going round begging for money every time.

“In the abundance of water, the FOOL is thirsty.” …………But in this same abundance, we should not allow the likes of Sam Jonah and co. to deceive us into believing they are on our side.

We, Ghanaians have a habit of rewarding failure, incompetence, corruption, nepotism etc. and need to snap out of it and punish deliberate inefficiency and economic mismanagement in our society, once and for all. And also, do away with the two most useless parties in NDC and NPP………That is when we will realize our full potential as a people of a GREAT NATION – GHANA!

GOD BLESS GHANA! AFRICAN FOREVER!
YB 10 years ago

Thank you Sir. May God bless you for your honesty. In fact I share your assertions that "Ghanaians have a habit of rewarding failure, incompetence, corruption, nepotism etc. and need to snap out of it and punish deliberate in ...
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Thank you Sir. May God bless you for your honesty. In fact I share your assertions that "Ghanaians have a habit of rewarding failure, incompetence, corruption, nepotism etc. and need to snap out of it and punish deliberate inefficiency and economic mismanagement in our society, once and for all".
OLIVER TWIST 10 years ago

I thoroughly enjoyed reading your piece. I doubt that I could have put it as poignantly and succinctly like you have done here.

God bless you, bud.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading your piece. I doubt that I could have put it as poignantly and succinctly like you have done here.

God bless you, bud.
Rans F 10 years ago

Yes, for a useless Knighthood, you sold then AGC to your masters! GNPC under Tsatsu wasted billions of the taxpayers' money to prospect for salt!! Nkwaseasem.

Yes, for a useless Knighthood, you sold then AGC to your masters! GNPC under Tsatsu wasted billions of the taxpayers' money to prospect for salt!! Nkwaseasem.
++WHO ELSE CAN?+++ 10 years ago

JJ rawlings and tsikata and awhois and all those useless entities could not venture to find the oil. they were busily selling national property. No asante, no ghana.

JJ rawlings and tsikata and awhois and all those useless entities could not venture to find the oil. they were busily selling national property. No asante, no ghana.
Emmanuel A. Aniboye-Fofie 10 years ago

SAM JONAH, WHERE WERE YOU WHEN TSATSU TSIKATA WAS BEING VERIFIED BY THE KUFFOUR ADMINISTRATION?

It is heart-warming, that People of high-standing caliber like Mr. Sam Jonah is comming out with the truth; on the Pioneering ...
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SAM JONAH, WHERE WERE YOU WHEN TSATSU TSIKATA WAS BEING VERIFIED BY THE KUFFOUR ADMINISTRATION?

It is heart-warming, that People of high-standing caliber like Mr. Sam Jonah is comming out with the truth; on the Pioneering Role Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata played in bringing the Oil Industry in Ghana to the pleasant state it is today. Although, quite belated; given the need for someone to have risen to the occasion and come out with such 'TRUTHS' in defence of Mr. Tsikata, in the times Kuffour's Administration employed every means to bring down this Wonderful,God-fearing Patriotic Son of Ghana, Mr. Sam Jonah's write-up has validated the time-honoured belief, that "the truth can never be Burried! Mr. Sam Jonah Kudos for such statesmanship!
NII LARTEY NARTEY 10 years ago

The majority of Ghanaians are hungry and just begging for food on the family table, facing unthinkable social economic hardships, young graduates walking aimlessly looking for non-available jobs and the poor crying hopelessl ...
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The majority of Ghanaians are hungry and just begging for food on the family table, facing unthinkable social economic hardships, young graduates walking aimlessly looking for non-available jobs and the poor crying hopelessly for ordinaries like portable drinking water, shelter, electrification, medication, better schools for their kids, social security. Yet this old crook and a Western stooge called "Sir" still have the impunity to spew such long empty article here seeking the recognition of a jail bird?

Can't believe the curse on Ghana today.

The great man Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah by the help of the Russians long found oil in Ghana long before the unfortunate 1966 coup came to destroy the dream. Read from Professor Bafo the father of the immediate past minister of information under Atta Mills who stood for the 1979 Presidential elections which brought the first Northerner to power as a proud President elect fairly.

This is total distortion of historical facts and absolutely nonsense as Ghana had long found oil right here!

The bigot ethnocentric and the shameless wife snatcher Tsatsu Tsikata only went for Cubans to come and compete with the indigenous Apentengs in the Ada salt exploration, stole millions from GNPC, set up fake off shore company and transferred our millions into his private bank far away in British Virgin Islands.

Why was he jailed by Kufour government then?

Who took the thinking cup of Sam Jonah away? It's so sad after stealing our gold and walk free, we allow this man to tell us whom to appreciate as a nation. What about the Ashante koakosi nkorasifour farmers whose hard work contributed hugely to give us scholarships to educate for free the likes of Tiskatas, Tony Aidoos, Kobi Achempongs, Ablakwas and the man we unfortunately have as President who now sees guinea fowls as national priority over our cocoa?
Kweku Tawiah 10 years ago

This article was published in the Daily Graphic about 5 years ago and so why it's reclycing now? Desperate attempt to shore up the image of Tsatsu Tsikata? In any case, Sam Jonah didn't get all his facts right ! The data and ...
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This article was published in the Daily Graphic about 5 years ago and so why it's reclycing now? Desperate attempt to shore up the image of Tsatsu Tsikata? In any case, Sam Jonah didn't get all his facts right ! The data and technology behind the jubilee field discovery in 2007, had nothing to do with the work which Tsatsu and the GNPC had previously done. And who is behind this recycling ?
Kweku Tawiah 10 years ago

Information reaching me suggest that Sam Jonah is surprised at the recycling of an article he wrote and got published in the Daily Graphic about 5 years ago. The attempt to make it look as if the article is a recent one and t ...
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Information reaching me suggest that Sam Jonah is surprised at the recycling of an article he wrote and got published in the Daily Graphic about 5 years ago. The attempt to make it look as if the article is a recent one and that Sam Jonah purposely got it republished on various websites is indicative of the desperate nature of the propaganda effort to shore up Tsatsu Tsikata's dented image. In any case, what is the relevance of this article today and why the recollection without any indication that the article was first published 5 years ago? And who are behind this republication and why are they making it look as though Sam Jonah is the source of the republication when in fact, he is NOT ! What desperation ?!
Nyansasem 10 years ago

"...purposely got it republished on various websites is indicative of the desperate nature of the propaganda effort to shore up Tsatsu Tsikata's dented image"

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That is the only reason.

"...purposely got it republished on various websites is indicative of the desperate nature of the propaganda effort to shore up Tsatsu Tsikata's dented image"

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That is the only reason.
Commonsense 10 years ago

Sir Jonas,Dr Nkrumah was named ´Father of Ghana`but people were already fighting for independence and even brought him back to Ghana to help

Sir Jonas,Dr Nkrumah was named ´Father of Ghana`but people were already fighting for independence and even brought him back to Ghana to help
A Richard 10 years ago

Tsatsu did well why was he send to jail?

Tsatsu did well why was he send to jail?
krikri 10 years ago

you hear?

you hear?
Akonfem Govt 10 years ago

when will these evil people disappear from Ghana

when will these evil people disappear from Ghana
ko 10 years ago

Thanks Sir Jonah. Agree with you in total. Some of us who worked in GNPC can attest to this.

It baffles me when i hear the former president say he solely did this.

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Thanks Sir Jonah. Agree with you in total. Some of us who worked in GNPC can attest to this.

It baffles me when i hear the former president say he solely did this.

Oil exploration has been undertaken in Ghana for serveral years before Nkrumah and each of the efforts since kwame Nkrumah's time have all contributed in providing the building blocks needed to attract the required capital. But Mr Jonah is right that the legal framework as applies to this sector was largely impacted by Tsatsu. and yes the oil discovery was finally made in Kufours era
PAA NII TESHIE. 10 years ago

Thanks so much Hon. Sir Sam Jonah. The truth is just like the cork. You can surpress it till thy kingdom come but the moment you lift the hand it comes up. Indeed, you are an honest man and really deserve the honor Sir. You h ...
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Thanks so much Hon. Sir Sam Jonah. The truth is just like the cork. You can surpress it till thy kingdom come but the moment you lift the hand it comes up. Indeed, you are an honest man and really deserve the honor Sir. You have said it all. May the good Lord bless you now and ever more.
AKA. 10 years ago

You have made me proud to day. haven't follow you closely in Obuasi and what you have achieved, you couldn't have said it better.

You have made me proud to day. haven't follow you closely in Obuasi and what you have achieved, you couldn't have said it better.
ONE GHANA, ONE PEOPLE 10 years ago

The last thing an ASANTE would like to hear is, an EWE is good. The Ewes and the Northerners are coming strong.

The last thing an ASANTE would like to hear is, an EWE is good. The Ewes and the Northerners are coming strong.
OKRO MOUTH 10 years ago

I was about to applaud your pseudo name only to note that you are just another tribalist. These attacks on Ewes, Asantes, Northerners and others must stop. We should rather focus on even uniting our dear country further and l ...
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I was about to applaud your pseudo name only to note that you are just another tribalist. These attacks on Ewes, Asantes, Northerners and others must stop. We should rather focus on even uniting our dear country further and look for avenues that will bring us total economic emancipation.
ONE GHANA, ONE PEOPLE 10 years ago

Did you really understand the essence of my comment. Simply, if ASANTES will stop underrating and calling other tribes names, like pepeni, trokosi, Brongs are foolish, etc...then GHANA will be very non TRIBALISTIC. Of course ...
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Did you really understand the essence of my comment. Simply, if ASANTES will stop underrating and calling other tribes names, like pepeni, trokosi, Brongs are foolish, etc...then GHANA will be very non TRIBALISTIC. Of course GHANA is overcoming tribalism, buts its like a stronghold in the ASANTES.
The ASANTES are still very backward minded, don't want to accept or acknowledge the wisdom and intelligence of other tribes.
Despite the fact that the ASANTES learnt a lot from the Brongs, they call them foolish.
Despite the fact that the Ewes are great academics, the ASANTES call the names, ...northerners, despite their advancement in academia, the ASANTES undermine them.
It seems like the ASANTES can't stand the challenges of the other tribes.
Please understand before you criticise.
JASPER 10 years ago

ALL MEN SOULS ARE IMMORTAL BUT THE SOULS OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS DIVINE AND IMMORTAL.HE DESERVES A PRAISE AND COMMENDATION.HE IS A TRUE SON OF OUR DEAR NATION AND WE SHALL ACKNOWLEDGE HIM FOR THAT HEROISM. MAY GOD CONTINUE TO STR ...
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ALL MEN SOULS ARE IMMORTAL BUT THE SOULS OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS DIVINE AND IMMORTAL.HE DESERVES A PRAISE AND COMMENDATION.HE IS A TRUE SON OF OUR DEAR NATION AND WE SHALL ACKNOWLEDGE HIM FOR THAT HEROISM. MAY GOD CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN HIM IN ALL THINGS. YOU ARE MY HERO TSATSU
JASPER 10 years ago

ALL MEN SOULS ARE IMMORTAL BUT THE SOULS OF THE RIGHTEOUS ARE DIVINE AND IMMORTAL. HE DESERVES COMMENDATION AND PRAISE. HE IS A TRUE SON OF OUR DEAR NATION. WE NEED PEOPLE LIKE SAM TO TELL US ABOUT THE LEADERS OF OUR TIME.MAY ...
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ALL MEN SOULS ARE IMMORTAL BUT THE SOULS OF THE RIGHTEOUS ARE DIVINE AND IMMORTAL. HE DESERVES COMMENDATION AND PRAISE. HE IS A TRUE SON OF OUR DEAR NATION. WE NEED PEOPLE LIKE SAM TO TELL US ABOUT THE LEADERS OF OUR TIME.MAY THE GOOD LORD CONTINUE TO SHOWERS HIS BLESSINGS ON YOU.
Zip Up 10 years ago

This is what I call hard working selflessness and dedication to mother Ghana now we know the storyand so we must all applaud Tsatsut Tsikata so that it will set as en example for others especially the Lazy Corrupt Politicians ...
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This is what I call hard working selflessness and dedication to mother Ghana now we know the storyand so we must all applaud Tsatsut Tsikata so that it will set as en example for others especially the Lazy Corrupt Politicians can also learn from this Patriotic Compatriot Tsatsu Great sun of Ghana, you Will be remembered as an icon good work done we Ghana appreciate
JAMES Y 10 years ago

Give praise to those who deserve it, as Mr Sam Jona's article tries to tell us. But, Ghanaians have short memories; would they recognise his qualities and efforts? Ghanaians tend to worship and follow those who shout on roof ...
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Give praise to those who deserve it, as Mr Sam Jona's article tries to tell us. But, Ghanaians have short memories; would they recognise his qualities and efforts? Ghanaians tend to worship and follow those who shout on roof tops, tell lies and heap empty promises on them.

Tsatsu Tsikata seems to be a very quiet and unassuming person. Perhaps, this is why Ghanaians vilify him, though he has done priceless job for the nation. His perseverance has led us to where we are now in terms of oil and gas production and safeguard of our natural energy. The sooner we recognise and praise people like him and stop heaping praise on those who snare and give empty promises, the better for us!
Alhaji 10 years ago

Bravo!very honest analysis of Tsatu's contribution to this gargantuation oil discovery.Grateful to you Dr Jonah. Gariba

Bravo!very honest analysis of Tsatu's contribution to this gargantuation oil discovery.Grateful to you Dr Jonah. Gariba
Akos 10 years ago

Why does the npp seems to be living in the 9th century when it comes to development? why do they boast of being the masters on political intellect yet make pronouncements which may be deemed as developmentally delayed? They a ...
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Why does the npp seems to be living in the 9th century when it comes to development? why do they boast of being the masters on political intellect yet make pronouncements which may be deemed as developmentally delayed? They also claim to be a "Christian" party yet' are able to manipulate pink sheets, lie, cheat,kill women, burn markets, bribe their way through every deal,buy state lands and properties for peanuts, and neglect the poor. They are just burning questions begging for answers.
GBEVU 10 years ago

AND YET THIS IS A MAN INSTEAD OF HONOURING NPP AND ITS PRESIDENT, KUFFOUR, RENTED LAWYERS IMPRISONED MEERLY BECAUSE HE BELONGS TO A DIFFERENT POLITICAL PERSUATION POSTERITY WILL JUDGE US ALL. DR SAM JONAH THANK YOU FOR YOUR A ...
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AND YET THIS IS A MAN INSTEAD OF HONOURING NPP AND ITS PRESIDENT, KUFFOUR, RENTED LAWYERS IMPRISONED MEERLY BECAUSE HE BELONGS TO A DIFFERENT POLITICAL PERSUATION POSTERITY WILL JUDGE US ALL. DR SAM JONAH THANK YOU FOR YOUR ABILITY TO SEE THIS.
Akos 10 years ago

THEIR MYOPIC THINKING IN THE NAME OF POLITICS. SAD SAD SAD.

THEIR MYOPIC THINKING IN THE NAME OF POLITICS. SAD SAD SAD.
Senile Jonah 10 years ago

whaaaat

whaaaat
Kass 10 years ago

Sir Jonah, Tsatsu was jailed because of something. Do you think we should honor him, which I agree but should look the other way when he gambled with state money? If the gamble paid off, would he have informed gov't?

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Sir Jonah, Tsatsu was jailed because of something. Do you think we should honor him, which I agree but should look the other way when he gambled with state money? If the gamble paid off, would he have informed gov't?

Tsatsu did great. But WOULD America or UK look the other way under similar circumstances?

I am disappointed that you are trying to open old wounds. But it also tells us how you acquired your massive fortune. It wasn't all CLEAN
GNPC=SALT, COCOA, LOANS, ETC 10 years ago

but not oil

but not oil
GHANABA 10 years ago

You give RESPECT where is due and those of us educated know Tsatsu Tsikata's contributions was important and I cant help laughing when I saw NPP man with a bottle oil trying to claim credit for it. Just as they will claim the ...
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You give RESPECT where is due and those of us educated know Tsatsu Tsikata's contributions was important and I cant help laughing when I saw NPP man with a bottle oil trying to claim credit for it. Just as they will claim they fought for our Independence!
STANDARDS 10 years ago

1.8 billion barrels of oil reserves not significant by US standards. Nigeria's is estimated at 36 billion barrels. Jonah should take note. The US geophysicists were right!

1.8 billion barrels of oil reserves not significant by US standards. Nigeria's is estimated at 36 billion barrels. Jonah should take note. The US geophysicists were right!
Akos 10 years ago

That's rather a myopic view of the oil find in Ghana.The oil reserves in Brazil,Nigeria & the like were not discovered in one swoop. The hydrocarbon international market is complex due to local & international regulatory boar ...
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That's rather a myopic view of the oil find in Ghana.The oil reserves in Brazil,Nigeria & the like were not discovered in one swoop. The hydrocarbon international market is complex due to local & international regulatory boards. A country's oil find may or may not benefit its internal uses. America is blessed with billions of hydrocarbon but is still the # one importer of crude oil.If finances are made available to develop the over 10 oil wells discoveries after the original find, the reserve may increase exponentially.
KING MAXI 10 years ago

GOD BLESS TSATSU TSIKATA!!! ALL YOUR ENEMIES WILL DIE WITH JEALOUSY!!!

GOD BLESS TSATSU TSIKATA!!! ALL YOUR ENEMIES WILL DIE WITH JEALOUSY!!!
KA AKYIRE 10 years ago

MR JONAH, I AND MY FAMILY DO NOT NEED ANY OF YOUR MONEY BUT JUST TELL US THE TRUTH. SUCH TRUTH WILL SUSTAIN GHANA FOR THE NEXT 500 YEARS. KUFOUR'S GOVERNMENT AND SOME OF HIS CRONIES HAS CAUSED VERY BIG BLUNDER BY TWISTING THE ...
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MR JONAH, I AND MY FAMILY DO NOT NEED ANY OF YOUR MONEY BUT JUST TELL US THE TRUTH. SUCH TRUTH WILL SUSTAIN GHANA FOR THE NEXT 500 YEARS. KUFOUR'S GOVERNMENT AND SOME OF HIS CRONIES HAS CAUSED VERY BIG BLUNDER BY TWISTING THE TRUTH, HOW CAN GOD HEAL THE NATION? UNLESS WE START TELLING THE TRUTH AND SEEK FORGIVENESS, OUR WEALTH CANNOT SAVE US. AMEN
Ebo 10 years ago

Sam Jonah is useless and so is the Tsatsu, the mega thief. Oil exploration dates back to my early years at Adisco in the 60s when the oil fields at Saltpong lit the night sky as we drove by the ocean from Cape Coast to Accra. ...
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Sam Jonah is useless and so is the Tsatsu, the mega thief. Oil exploration dates back to my early years at Adisco in the 60s when the oil fields at Saltpong lit the night sky as we drove by the ocean from Cape Coast to Accra. One day the ordinary man in Ghana will find courage to bring all these men to face the law including master thief JJ Rawlings
Kwame Ha what eeeeeeeee gan 10 years ago

Sam Jonah and Tsatsu are one, in terms of milking the country dry. The "immense contribution" of Tsatsu in causing financial loss to the state must rather be mentioned to posterity. Sam Jonah, you're lucky you were not caught ...
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Sam Jonah and Tsatsu are one, in terms of milking the country dry. The "immense contribution" of Tsatsu in causing financial loss to the state must rather be mentioned to posterity. Sam Jonah, you're lucky you were not caught. You must be ashamed of yourself for opening worms here.
PAA KWAO 10 years ago

MASTER IF YOU HAVE TAKEN MONEY FROM HIM YOU BRTTER GO AND GIVE HIS MONEY BACK TO HIM BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.WHAT DID HE DO TO THAT 86MILLON DOLLARS GIVEN TO THAT YOUR TSATSU TO PROSPETING FOR OIL? ALL THIS IS RUBBISH.IF YOU DONT ...
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MASTER IF YOU HAVE TAKEN MONEY FROM HIM YOU BRTTER GO AND GIVE HIS MONEY BACK TO HIM BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.WHAT DID HE DO TO THAT 86MILLON DOLLARS GIVEN TO THAT YOUR TSATSU TO PROSPETING FOR OIL? ALL THIS IS RUBBISH.IF YOU DONT HAVE ANY SENSEBLY THING TO WRITE JUST GO AND SLEEP.IDIOT
UHF 10 years ago

Please don't tell the EO group, they are throwing their weight about how they brought oil to Ghana stealing over 3% of the oil gave Ghana about 10% then throwing the rest of the percentage away, most of us don't know that the ...
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Please don't tell the EO group, they are throwing their weight about how they brought oil to Ghana stealing over 3% of the oil gave Ghana about 10% then throwing the rest of the percentage away, most of us don't know that the GNPC and Tsatsu have already done the ground work thank you Sam Jonah you are clearly not talking politics you are talking Ghana
Wahala 10 years ago

Jona,Tanx

Jona,Tanx
godfried donkor 10 years ago

Look at the state you left obuasi gold.....and hold your head in shame. The beneficiaries were the british and the south Africans where you now live and the queen gave you enoblement for our treachery..... you are filth Mr Sa ...
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Look at the state you left obuasi gold.....and hold your head in shame. The beneficiaries were the british and the south Africans where you now live and the queen gave you enoblement for our treachery..... you are filth Mr Sam Jonah. The state of obuasi says it all. Having said that I agree Tsatu is a real hero
JH New York 10 years ago

We hear Tsatsu stole $200-250 million of Tax payers funds at that time.Was that a true story?
Mr Sam Jonah, Ghanaians needed your own account or story of how you maneuvered and gave out our Gold Mines to foreigners,for you t ...
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We hear Tsatsu stole $200-250 million of Tax payers funds at that time.Was that a true story?
Mr Sam Jonah, Ghanaians needed your own account or story of how you maneuvered and gave out our Gold Mines to foreigners,for you to be knighted.
KZM 10 years ago

GOD BLESS YOU SIR JONAH. I KNEW THE TRUTH WOULD COME OUT. TSATSU LONG LIVE. WE SALUTE YOU. TSATSU GOD BLESS YOU FOR LAYING SUCH A STRONG FOUNDATION FOR GHANA'S OIL INDUSTRY.

GOD BLESS YOU SIR JONAH. I KNEW THE TRUTH WOULD COME OUT. TSATSU LONG LIVE. WE SALUTE YOU. TSATSU GOD BLESS YOU FOR LAYING SUCH A STRONG FOUNDATION FOR GHANA'S OIL INDUSTRY.
Son Of Man 10 years ago

Sorry Sam, as selfish as you are, you have finally brought yourself out. You and Owiredu caused the down fall of AGC so better keep your mouth shut.
SELFISH MAN, YOUR END HAS COME. AN EXAMPLE IS YOUR COCAINE SON.

Sorry Sam, as selfish as you are, you have finally brought yourself out. You and Owiredu caused the down fall of AGC so better keep your mouth shut.
SELFISH MAN, YOUR END HAS COME. AN EXAMPLE IS YOUR COCAINE SON.
Kofi 10 years ago

The truth shall always prevail.

The truth shall always prevail.

The truth behind oil find in Ghana - Sam Jonah

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