Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom, Presidential Candidate of the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP), says government must begin to focus on communities where oil is developed, now that it has been given the go ahead to continue with its oil exploration in the disputed boundary with Ivory Coast.
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, ITLOS, on Saturday ruled in favor of Ghana to continue with its operations estimated to be around multi-billion dollar TEN deepwater oil and gas project. The more than a decade dispute between the two neighbors has slowed development at the oil fields, negatively impacting the revenue of oil companies.
“The Special Chamber unanimously finds that Ghana did not violate the sovereign rights of Côte d‘Ivoire,†said Judge Boualem Bouguetaia, President of the Special Chamber.Â
Speaking to Primenewsghana over the weekend at Elmina in the Central Region, Dr. Nduom, who has consistently stressed the oil must be left to the ground if is not going to benefit the country, said though the outcome is good for Ghana, it is about time the country begins to focus on communities where the oil is explored, so they are not left in penury like mining fields.
“What I am hoping, really is that with this, we’ll focus the oil production area and not about the whole country, because we want to fund education we go to oil, but we forget that they are human beings who are from that area.â€
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