Political Governance • 28 Aug 2021 GNPC Boss Accuses CSOs of Indigestion from Fufu! Finally, the elusive Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has found time in his packed diary to engage the public about the controversy surrounding the biggest single transaction in the GNPC’s history. Alerted by friends, who know of my deep interest in the subject, I went online... read more
Political Governance • 22 Aug 2021 Why Ghana’s “Auditor General Reports” Risk Becoming Circus Shows We have a ritual in Ghana. Every once in a while, the country’s Auditor General compiles the highlights of what she found when her battalion of public auditors went through the books of various public sector institutions in line with the Constitution and various laws requiring this undertaking on a... read more
Political Governance • 21 Aug 2021 CSOs Turn Down Strategy Lessons from Gabby on GNPC-Aker Our onetime friend in the Ghanaian Civil Society Movement, the Founder of the Danquah Institute and strategist behind a dozen activist fronts, from Let My Vote Count Alliance to Alliance for Accountable Governance, has some advice for those of us still on the frontlines: keep your shirts on! He says... read more
Political Governance • 16 Aug 2021 On GNPC-Aker, Bob Hinson Didn’t Look Before He Leaped In between management meetings this morning, my notifications bell continued to buzz. So, I paused to check. Messages were dropping fast: Bob Hinson says you’re “smearing” GNPC. What’s going on? There was a link, so I clicked. And there it was, a curious 9-point article by Professor Hinson of the... read more
Political Economy • 14 Aug 2021 Why Ghanaian Activists Oppose a $1 Billion Giveaway to Norwegian Billionaires Ghana wants to borrow $1.45 billion to invest in two seemingly “stranded” oil assets – Pecan and Nyankom – off its coast. $1.1 billion will go directly to the current Norwegian controllers of the two fields – mainly Kjell Inge Rokke of Aker ASA, his family fund and spouse –... read more
