WHY AN OIL-PRODUCING GHANA IS MUCH MUCH SAFER IN THE HANDS OF PRESIDENT MILLS!

To understand why patriotic and nationalistic Ghanaian voters, in pending elections in one of Africa's newest oil-producing nations, really ought to give President Mills a second term in office, one has to remember a few pertinent Ghanaian oil industry facts.

Fact number one: President Mills rejected a bribe from American oil company executives - not too long after he assumed office. There are few leaders anywhere in the developing world, who would do same, dear reader - and one must therefore commend Mills, for being a man of such unalloyed integrity: and a shining example to political leaders worldwide.

Fact number two: It will be recalled, that a number of American oil company executives paid courtesy calls on the sitting president, during the era of President Mills' predecessor, the perfidious President Kufour.

One wonders whether they made the same offer they made to President Mills, to President Kufuor, too, then - which perhaps is what made them so bold to repeat the offer to Mills, when they subsequently paid a courtesy call on him, at the Osu Castle, not too long after he became president.

Fact number three: Furthermore, it is also a fact that during the Kufuor-era, two private individuals, fellow Ghanaian citizens (both not previously known by either Ghanaian or U.S. tax authorities to be high net worth individuals!), who did not even pay a pesewa upfront, for such valuable assets, eventually ended up owning shares in oil blocs, in Ghanaian oilfields, off our country's shores.

Does it follow, a priori, therefore, from all the above, dear reader, that that is why thus far, under the current administration, we have not seen any private individuals from Ghana, emerging as partners of foreign oil companies, operating in any of the oilfields off our nation's shores - and owning shares in oil blocs in those selfsame oilfields: using special purpose vehicles for the purpose?

And is that why, although under President Kufuor, there was the E. O. Group, under his successor, President Mills, there has not been any such entity, in private Ghanaian hands? Is that why we have so far not heard of the existence of an equivalent of the E. O. Group - which, perhaps, during the tenure of a National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, might be known as the Eyeeh Zuu Zaa Group (the E. Z. Z. Group), for example?

Fact number four: A number of senior New Patriotic Party (NPP) figures, have made promises to wealthy mavericks within their ranks, that they will be given shares in oil blocs - to pacify them and stop them from rocking the MV NPP-boat-of-plenty 11, and possibly losing them the December 2012 elections.

An egregious example, is the offer of an oil bloc (should the NPP be returned to power again after the December 2012 elections - God forbid!), made to silence the maverick tycoon, Mr. Ayisi Boateng.

Some readers will recall, that to keep the selfsame Ayisi Boateng content and quiet, during the tenure of the NPP regime of President Kufuor, he was given a timber concession by those super-rogues, Kufuor & Co. (the tribal-supremacist cabal, which had an iron grip on the NPP, throughout the Kufuor-era), in order to stop him from rocking the MV NPP-boat-of-plenty 1 - and causing it to take in too much water: and sink.

In view of all the above, if the discerning and independent-minded individuals, whose crucial swing-votes now determine which party's candidate becomes Ghana's president, want to protect Ghana's oil revenues, and stop them from ending up in the offshore bank accounts of a few powerful and well-connected individuals, with greedy ambitions, then they must vote en masse for President Mills, in the December 2012 presidential elections.

The fact of the matter, is that an oil-producing Ghana, is far safer, in the very honest hands of President Mills, than those of any other politician, in present-day Ghana. It is therefore in the national interest, and vital for the well-being of ordinary Ghanaians, going forward, that President Mills is re-elected to power again, in December 2012. A word to the wise...

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