Monday, 2 January 2017

ACEP warns against GNPC relocation plan by Akufo-Addo

Vitality think tank, Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP), needs wants to migrate the home office of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) to be racked.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Takoradi, Kwabena Okyere Darko, proposed amid the Joy FM Ballot Box, that the GNPC will be moved from Tema in Accra toward the Western Region when the NPP comes to control.

The MP said the migration will shape part of a total decentralization of the oil area to help work.

President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo as of late loaned assurance to the proposition amid a visit toward the Western Region House of Chiefs.

"The responsibilities that we have made are duties that will be satisfied.

"We will migrate the base camp of GNPC to this locale," Akufo-Addo had said.

In any case, talking at a media connection in Accra, the Head of Policy Unit of ACEP, Dr Ishmael Ackah, said the choice does not appear to be carefully conceived.

His view is that the migration will make the work of arrangement creators troublesome since oil investigation could begin in different parts of the nation, refering to the Volta Region as destined to begin oil investigation soon.

"So would we say we will move GNPC from the Western Region to the Volta Region?

"We can keep up GNPC here and rather open a backup office likely for operations in the Western Region. What we can likewise propose is that rather than GNPC, we can rather move Petroleum Commission which is the controller toward the Western Region," he said.

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