Board Chair of the Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC), Prof. Kwesi Botchway has vowed to resist any attempt by the Energy Ministry to reconstitute the governing board of the company until, all the takeover processes are complete.
Joy News has learnt moves by the government to reconstitute the Ghana Gas Board on Wednesday, December 16, 2014 but Prof. Botchway says he will not allow members of the board to be treated as “minions and sycophants”.
Prof. Botchway in a statement last week, rejected government’s claims that the takeover of Ghana Gas was complete, insisting he knew nothing about the takeover. Government responded by putting out letters written to the board informing it of the takeover.
However, it turns out that the letters got to the offices of the GNGC at 5:53pm after close of work Friday, December 12, 2014.
The former Finance Minister accused the Energy Ministry of lying to Ghanaians when it said it officially informed management and board of Ghana Gas of the takeover.
“If it does happen that this new owner [GNPC] ordered such changes in the board, I will not be fooled. I will take it to mean that this is a decision that government has taken…there are procedures for appointing and removing board members and these procedures must be followed,” the GNGC Chair told Joy News’ George Wiafe.
He insisted that strict adherence to the laws governing the takeover process must be followed saying; “we are a country of laws; this is not just a jungle.
“If all you want is gas and no process is required [then] why don’t we just [may be] kill everybody and have a foreign investor bring a battalion of foreign workers and do it and give us the gas?
“I’m sure there are many who would like to hog the glory.
They see luscious low hanging fruit which is tempting to just go [and] grab it,” the former Finance Minister fumed.
He wondered “why this whole business has to be done so crudely and as it turned out so duplicitously”.
He said the current Board would “remain respectful to the authority that appointed us, but we are not just minions that can be ordered about and treated with discourtesy”
Source: Ghana | Myjoyonline.com | Jerry Tsatro Mordy | jerry.mordy@myjoyonline.com
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