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Give oil and gas contracts to local companies - AGI

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  • Owuahene 11 years ago

    Show Ghanaians an instance in economy for industrialization sector where we have proved successfull?.This never the time to derail progress in this oil sector,that revenues are needed for social progress.Has these local enter ...
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  • Nyame Ekuma 11 years ago

    Don't be silly. Do u understand what is local content ? Nonsense.

    Ghana's oil and gas is hoodwinked by foreigners. They supply all the macinery and wquioment and logistics, even toilet rolls.

    This is after they have tak ...
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  • Nana otuoro 11 years ago

    Well done my friend Nyame Ekuma, God bless you. I weep at my fellow Ghanaians including our president. They are bloody idiots, our oil is been sold and is completely gone. We are idiots and for that matter we shall suffer. Ev ...
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  • Nyame Ekuma 11 years ago

    Don't be silly. Do u understand what is local content ? Nonsense.

    Ghana's oil and gas is hoodwinked by foreigners. They supply all the macinery and wquioment and logistics, even toilet rolls.

    This is after they have tak ...
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  • JoJo 11 years ago

    A comment from you shows you know nothing about the highly technical process of extracting oil from below the sea. How many locals work in the oil industry in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf regions

  • Onyansani 11 years ago

    Jojo, your mother ok. You have no sense at all. What happened to education? does the fact that none of our locals work in the Gulf or oil industry mean we should relinquish all our stake in our natural resources to foreigners ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    Local content is using garbage Satchel water Plastic Bags as Condoms.
    Instead of using Vaseline,we can use the left over oil from Cape Tree Points and our spit as lubricants and make the women Scream"Akaraka,Chi,Cha Cho"from ...
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  • Yaa Nkosuo 11 years ago

    You remind me of a poster I saw recently and it reads

    "Of ALL the things I've Lost
    It's my MIND I miss the Most"

    You know what?
    I just thought about you. Perhaps I should get you one!!!

    What a dickhead you a ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    My dick is very big and any time i want to have sex,I make the women weigh it before they try it.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    A young woman in Takoradi was so depressed that she decided to end her life by throwing herself into the ocean. She went down to the docks at the Harbor and was about to leap into the frigid water when a handsome young sailo ...
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  • Onyansani 11 years ago

    As you can all see, the oil subject is getting sensitive by the day, ofcourse the government is pretending a blind eye about the grievances of the Ghanaian people. When the people can no longer use bottle up their frusatratio ...
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  • EZEKIEL 11 years ago

    It SHOULDN'T be ...."because you are a Ghanaian company"...In WHICH SECTOR have you EXCELLED in Ghana to EARN that ?? So far the ONLY SECTOR which FUNCTIONS WELL in Ghana is CORRUPTION!!!
    PROVE YOUR COMPETENCE!!!!

  • Oslo, Bridget 11 years ago

    Totally agree

  • UU 11 years ago

    SHOW ME LOCAL CONTENT LAW PASS BY GHANA AND HOW ENFORCEABLE IT IS. WHEN SIGNING CONTRACT WITH THESE COMPANIES, IT SHOULD BE PART OF IT. EVERY COMPANY AS WELL AS LISTING IN GHANA STOCK EXCHANGE. ESPECIALLY BIG COMPANIES AND CO ...
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  • BOY KOFI 11 years ago

    Why should we give 90% of oil found in Ghana to foreign private companies?The LOCAL CONTENT in the agreement must be clear to everybody,we should know what went in there and we can do.Thank you.

  • Anali 11 years ago

    Why doesn’t Ghana extract its own oil ?

  • BOY KOFI 11 years ago

    This is a very bad deal because it has no time limit or renewal.There is also no infrastructural development attached.Just look at what Kwame Nkrumah did with only Bauxite in the 60s.We got American company,Kaiser to come for ...
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  • DAN 11 years ago

    thats why..Go to Standard charter and borrow 1 billions dollars and you too can drill..Otherwise shut up and open your own filling station or oil storage tank farm and you can get part of the action....

  • TONNY 11 years ago

    where is the oil he is talking about.our resources giving to CHINESE for a paltry 3 billion dollar loan whereby no development going in the country.a nation corrupt officials. how come a small country like ghana has over 50 m ...
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  • Yaa Nkosuo 11 years ago

    Very sad, What are you doing about it?

  • BOY KOFI 11 years ago

    When you sign a contract,you put in a specific projects,dates for expiration and renewals.Our govt did not do that,they were only interested in their personal gains if not why should 90% of the oil goes to foreign private com ...
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  • Hazor 11 years ago

    Sir,NDC ministers said TOR cannot refine Jubillee oil.What contracts are you talking about,selling contract or buying contracts?All the oil from wells are export, what left for Ghanaians?

  • DAN 11 years ago

    i bet they will find a way to refine ghana oil or will find way to profit at the refinery with Nigerian oil..Oil has to be shipped for 6 week across the ocean to America yet i only paid a HIGH of $3.67 per gallon of petro (4 ...
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  • Onyansani 11 years ago

    As you can all see, the oil subject is getting sensitive by the day, ofcourse the government is pretending a blind eye on the grievances of the Ghanaian people. When the people can no longer bottle up their frusatrations, the ...
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  • YY 11 years ago

    GHANAIANS WILL SEE A LOT OF THEIR JOBS GOING TO EUROPEANS UNEMPLOYED SINCE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T HAVE LOCAL CONTENT LAW IN PLACE. WHILE SOME OF GREEDY, CORRUPT LEADERS, CHIEFS SELLING LANDS INSTEAD OF RENTING OR LEASING TO FOREI ...
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  • Danny cole 11 years ago

    Land should not be sold but leased to investors for a greater retains. It also remains an asset to the community for future gains.it is a pride for the youth since the state is awarding all the oil and gas contracts to forieg ...
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  • FORD OGA 11 years ago

    This local content exist but because we have greedy elements as leaders, even toilet roles contracts are awarded to foreigners. They always decieve the pubic with big useless english gramma.

  • Sankofa 11 years ago

    We must enforce the local content legislation to ensure that foreign companies employ locaal staff and train them to enable them gain experience and expertise in the oil and gas sector.

    We do not want a repeat of the gold ...
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  • PROF -- THOMAS KUBI -- McA INT MAR 11 years ago

    With the sudden resignation of Dr Chambas from the post of the ACP Secretary-General to take up his new position as the Special UN/African Commission Envoy to Darfur, the ACP Secretariat of close to 75 countries has somehow b ...
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  • mama Joy 11 years ago

    DO NOT GIVE TO ANY LOCAL!!! THEY ALWAYS TAKE THE MONEY AND WILL NOT DELIVER THE SERVICE, LOOK AT OUR ROADS! LET THE FOREIGNERS DO IT! LOOK AT THE ABURI ROAD; DID THE FOREIGN COMPANY NOT DELIVER???/