APPEAL FOR DONATIONS TO SUPPORT FTOS Ghana Legal Fund

APPEAL FOR DONATIONS TO SUPPORT FTOS Ghana Legal Fund  

Reclaim Your Birth Rights & Oil Wealth - Support the Case at the Supreme Court of Ghana!

Appeal For Donations To Support FTOS Gh Legal Fund

Dear Sir/Madam,



We write you as someone most aware and a sympathizer of the efforts of the Fair-Trade Oil Share (FTOS) PSA Campaign over the years in respect of the fairest and most appropriate types of laws and contracts Ghana needs to enable Ghanaians derive the full maximum benefits in wealth and income from Ghana's sovereign oil and gas resources.



The hour of decision has arrived and we are answering the call! We plead with you to join us with your financial support.



We must now collectively take the bull by the horn to rescue Ghanaians from the multiple grand schemes of subjugation  to modern day indenture slave contracts whereby Ghanaians shall remain beggars in the midst of plenty even as foreign oil companies are now reaping billions of dollars from Ghana's Jubilee Oil Fields, just like the minerals before it.



Despite our best effort at advisement and counsel, governments under the NPP, the NDC, then the NPP again, have over the years, blinded by self-interests induced by comparably petty funding to what Ghana is losing the oil interests have been pumping into the system, purposefully neglected and failed to enact laws and contracts founded on the principles of Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) for sovereign Ghana oil as required under prevailing PNDC Law 84.1



We have always argued, backed by legal documents, that the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) was the basis of PNDC Law 84. The PSA is the current norm and practice worldwide that accrues fair-trade oil revenue to sovereign owners of oil and gas resources, especially in developing countries.



Therefore, the FTOS PSA Campaign, upon repeated advice, have determined that a law suit at the Supreme Court of Ghana is now the only option we have to seek fair-trade and equity in oil wealth distribution to Ghanaians, the sovereign owners of the oil. 


Hurriedly passed in 2016, Act 919, the current law for Ghana's oil contracts, is a continuing conspiracy hatched against the masses of Ghanaians from the corridors of Western Powers in collaboration with Ghanaian politicians and some elite technocrats. They thus retouched the Royalty System being illegally used into a "419" scheme they called "Hybrid System" to continue robbing Ghanaians of their sovereign oil and gas wealth in the name of attracting investments to Ghana. (The FTOS-Gh Campaign Flyer shows that Ghana lost over USD $7.7 billion at the close of 30th September, 2017 by neglecting to adopt PSA; while the Foreign Oil companies pocketed more than USD $15 billion. Ghana earned a paltry USD $3.5 bn).

    As a result, we have secured the services of an experienced, patriotic, law firm. The lawyers will take our case to the Supreme Court of Ghana on partial pro-bono legal fee basis. They will prove to the justices and the whole world that the contracts signed so far are illegal; the current law governing oil contracts is unjust and detrimental to Ghanaians, contravenes the Constitution and thus illegal. Attorney's fees, transportation, court filing fees, administrative and secretarial expenses, communications and conferencing, etc., total approximately GH¢55,000.00 (USD $12,000.00 equiv).

 This is a major test of our democracy and we urgently need your assistance with donations of funds to help Ghanaians. And so, we are appealing to you for financial support for a good public service for all Ghanaians!

 Please help us raise the GH¢55,000 within the next 90 days to enable us swiftly proceed to the Supreme Court to reclaim our birth rights from the clutches of our exploiters. These exploiters have been posing as benevolent investors with the support of many in the political class and some technocrats. These are the same people who do not even pay taxes on the incomes and multiple allowances they receive from taxes paid by Ghanaians, month after month, year after year.



United We Stand, Divided We Fall - Help Us Fight The Good Fight For Ghana

Please donate generously for this most worthy cause. Support Fair-Trade Oil Share Ghana at the Supreme Court of Ghana

Please remit your donations through CNREM Tigo cash Mobile Money Transfer No: 0577345193 or direct into CNREM Account No: 1071130001246 with GCB, Tema Main, Tema and transmit your details to nremafrica@gmail.com so that we send you acknowledgement of receipt and a thank you note.

For the sake of Accountability we shall publish the names of all donors, however if you wished your name not to be published, please do inform us, but we shall publish the donation and describe it as Anonymous.

 Thank You all for your times,

 Yours in the Service of Ghana

Solomon Kwawukume

Executive Director/CEO (CNREM)

Phone No: (+233) 246449104

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FAIR-TRADE OIL SHARE GHANA CAMPAIGN

RECORD OF APPEALS, PLEADINGS, & OUTREACH  TO PUBLIC OFFICIALS



Since Ghana prides herself as the Star of Africa and Gateway to West Africa, she must set the pace for others to follow, but the reverse is happening. The first is becoming the last.



That is why we are filing a law suit in the Supreme Court of Ghana to claim Ghana's stolen oil wealth for Ghanaians.



Why should Angola, South Sudan, Chad, Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone and others have better Petroleum Exploration and Production Laws than Ghana?



Could it be the political leaderships of those countries are more progressive, educated and intelligent than their counterparts of the Star of Africa?    



During the past NDC/Mahama administration, out of our private resources supported by friends and family at home and abroad and under the banner of Ghana Institute of Governance and Security (GIGS), we have published a multitude of publications, organized workshops and press conferences about the predatory and exploitative nature of the so-called Ghana’s Hybrid System that is now the basis for Ghana’s oil contracts.



We brought these to the notice of Ex-President Mahama, the Speaker of Parliament, Mr. Doe Adzaho, Committee Leaderships and all Members of the House of Parliament through periodic publications and petitions made available to them over the years.



Over the years, we have equally brought these to the attention of the following: The Minister of Finance, The Ministry of Petroleum, Petroleum Commission, The Council of State, The National House of Chiefs, The Steering Committee and the Governing Council of the Trade Union Congress, The Christian Council, The Catholic Bishop Conference, The Ghana Journalists Association, The Ghana United Nations Association (GUNA), Ex-Presidents Rawlings, Kufour and late President Mills; and State Security Institutions, etc., through publications, letters, workshops and lectures, requesting their intervention, all to no avail.



We have always argued and demonstrated that the world standard Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) which formed the basis of PNDC Laws 64 and 84, the current norm and practice worldwide, will accrue more revenue to Ghanaians, as sovereign owners of the Oil and Gas resources.  



This was met with deceit and falsehood by officials of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, the Petroleum Commission backed by ACEP, IEA and others. They claimed that PNDC Law 84 was outdated and was impeding investments, that the Hybrid System is the best option to adopt to attract more investments that would generate greater tax collections into Government chests. None of them have ever offered empirical evidence to prove their claim. Meanwhile, it is a public knowledge that they have all been compromised by funding by the oil lobby.



It has all been selling a false hope to the public on their part, without any proof!



The recent statement on PNDC Law 84 being outdated, by the Institute of Economic Affairs, appeared  on Page 60 of the Daily Graphic of Wednesday 6th December, 2017, is an example .



We have persistently disagreed with their assertions and have proven to the whole world that by December, 2015, Ghana had earned US$ 3.111 Billion (19.40%) of total production revenue under the Royalty Tax System used for the Jubilee Field, as against US $9.608 Billion (60.10%) of total production revenue at NO COST to Ghana, if the PSA, the basis of PNDC Law 84, had been adopted for Ghana. As a result Ghana lost US$ 6.496 Billion in Oil revenue in the first five years of operation at the Jubilee field.



The Oil Companies in the first five years recouped US $12,868,622,165, over 300% of the initial investment of US$ 4.2 Billion, and still claimed to government officials that they were making losses and were refusing to pay taxes, as noted by the Auditor General!



On 4th August 2016, Parliament of Ghana hurriedly passed Act 919 under Certificate of Urgency to consolidate this abysmal situation despite protestation from many Ghanaians.



The Mahama Administration lost the December 2016 election to the NPP.



We quickly petitioned President Akufo-Addo on 14th February 2017, and copied the Vice President, The Speaker of Parliament, The Ministers of Mines and Energy and Finance, the President of the National House of Chiefs, and Member of The Council of State. We drew their attention to the abysmal situation Ghana has been plunged into by previous administrations with their neglect to adopt the PSA for Ghana.



In addition, we petitioned the entire Council of State on 9lh March 2017 and copied the Vice President, as well as the Speaker of Parliament and media organizaions. We made available to all members of Parliament copies of the Petition to President Akufo-Addo.



At the time of writing this mail, there is a complete dead silence from all these quarters on the Petition. In fact, before the Appointment Vetting Committee of Parliament, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam (Anta), former Executive Director of ACEP, while being interviewed for the post of Deputy Minister of Mines and Energy, claimed that there is now a convergence between the Royalty Tax System and the PSA. Dr Amin claimed, falsely, that the Hybrid System invented by politicians and a few bureaucrats, is superior to the PSA because the fiscal terms cut across each other. Dr. Amin did not provide any scientific or empirical evidence to prove his claim, and Parliament was no wiser.



Our FTOS Ghana Campaign Flyer argues otherwise. Ghana lost US $7,741,794,106 as at 30th September 2017 for not adopting PSA which PNDC Law 84 which they claimed is outdated supports. The data in our flyer also disproves the assertion of the Deputy Minister Amin, ACEP, IEA, ISODEC, IMANI, and others that Act 919 is the best option for Ghana.



Judge for yourselves, Ghanaians!



Join the campaign and make a donation to the FTOS-Ghana Legal Fund today.