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    Mahama’s Alleged ‘Reckless’ $552M Yearly Sankofa Gas Deal Suffocating Govt. – Owusu Bempah | Politics

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    Director of Public Affairs at Ghana Gas, Ernest Owusu Bempah, has said the Nana Akufo-Addo administration has so far paid $3.6 billion in the past seven years for the ENI/Sankofa gas pipeline deal signed by the Mahama administration in 2015.

    Ernest Owusu Bempah was briefing Journalists in Accra on Tuesday, November 1 about how the contract which he termed as the ‘most expensive gas contract in the world’.

    On a monthly basis, he explained, Ghana is paying $46 million, making it $552 million yearly.

    This contract, he intimated, was also signed for 20 to 25 years.

    “The Akufo-Addo government had no choice but to continue with the contract when it came into office because of the terms and conditions.”

    “This contract was signed for 20 to 25 years, monopoly for that period and the IMF questioned it.”

    “We wouldn’t be going to the IMF but for some of these reckless dubious contracts signed by the Mahama administration,” he explained.

    According to Ernest Owusu Bempah the contract is partly to blame for the current economic challenges facing the country.

    The government is unable to reduce cost of electricity for thermal generation,” he stressed.

    Former President Mahama signed the agreement with ENI and Vitol Energy at a ceremony at the Peduase lodge near Aburi in 2015.

    This was, at the time, probably the biggest single largest foreign direct investment in West Africa and indeed Ghana since independence.

    The project was situated in the Western region.

    The oil production from the offshore cape three points was estimated at eighty thousand barrels per day.

    World Bank Country Director on Economic Challenges

    Recently, the World Bank Country Director(Ghana), Pierre Frank Laporte mentioned losses in the energy sector of the economy as one the challenges that forced Ghana into a situation where it is now seeking support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

    Speaking in an interview with TV3’s Paa Kwesi Asare on the Business Focus, Mr Laporte indicated that losses in the energy sector are compounding the challenges.

    “The big issue has been on the fiscal side. Before the current crisis happened, we observed certain challenges on the budget side that really has been the area more hit by everything. Also where actions are required now to deal with them.

    “For instance, on the revenue side we have always been saying that this is an area where Ghana should do better. We are encouraged by the fact that this should be one of the areas for potential programme and support from the World Bank. The problem is fiscal, not just revenue.

    “The problem is that there are also spillovers from other sectors. For instance, the energy sector. There is about one billion dollars going to the energy sector because of losses. The sector itself is not financial viable and to keep it going you have to subsidize.

    “Actions are required. Of course with Covid, the general business environment is been a bit more difficult.”

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