Opinions of Sunday, 26 April 2026
Columnist: Kofi Thompson
Ghanafuor, in the AI-era with its many exciting positive-tipping-point nation-building possibilities, tearing up the so-called ‘hybrid’ oil agreements, depriving Ghana of trillions that could fund the transformation of Ghana into a wealthy nation in which all demographics enjoy high-quality lives, is crucial.
No question. Full stop. Simple.
Ghanafuor, towards that sacred end, perhaps the best way to out-think and out-smart the big thieves in high places amongst our hard-of-hearing, greed-filled, self-seeking elites, who have benefited from the ‘hybrid’ agreements that legitimise our nation’s ongoing rip-off by oil companies operating in our waters, is to offer whistle-blowers indemnity from prosecution. Simple.
That indemnity should apply if they provide actionable, incontrovertible evidence that corroborates what an open secret is.
Add a bounty of 3% of recovered sums flowing from back-dated production-sharing agreements made possible by their whistle-blowing, and Bob’s your uncle: as flowing petro-dollars lift tens of millions of Ghanaians struggling to survive out of poverty through levelling-up policy initiatives designed to empower ambitious and hardworking individuals to bootstrap their own way to financial independence.
Taflaste, freed from soul-destroying poverty, won’t they pay their fair share of taxes and generate jobs for others on top too, I ask?
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