{"id":412049,"date":"2018-03-23T08:28:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T08:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=412049"},"modified":"2018-03-23T08:28:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T08:28:49","slug":"gnpc-off-track-by-going-into-mining-others-minority-fumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/gnpc-off-track-by-going-into-mining-others-minority-fumes\/","title":{"rendered":"GNPC off-track by going into mining, others \u2013 Minority fumes"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Minority in Parliament is unhappy with what they consider as a clear deviation of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), from its core mandate.<\/p>\n
According to the Minority Spokesperson on Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson, the GNPC is investing huge sums of the tax payers\u2019 funds into Gold mining, road construction and other areas that have no bearing on the focus of the entity which is in the petroleum sector.<\/p>\n
Parliament on Thursday approved the 2018 work programme for the state petroleum company.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/strong> after the approval, Ato Forson indicated that, the current management of GNPC is leading the entity unto the wrong path.<\/p>\n \u201cBasically, I am concerned about GNPC. GNPC has decided not to focus on their core mandate. I say this because the programmes that we approved today is something that stinks. GNPC is deviating from their core mandate as enshrined in law. For some strange reason, GNPC is saying they are going to spend 20 million dollars for the purposes of building their head office in Accra. In spite of that, they have an existing head office and they are saying they are spending 13.4 million cedis to renovate that office. What at all are they renovating?” he quizzed.<\/p>\n “Let us not forget that the same people have budgeted 20 million dollars to build a head office in Accra. \u00a0Again they are saying they are going to spend another 10 million dollars to build an operational office in Takoradi. I grew up in Takoradi and I do not know of a building that will cost 10 million dollars. They are also saying they will spend 2 million dollars to build a clinic… They are deviating from their core mandate. I think we should get GNPC to focus on their core mandate and not deviate from what they are doing. I think it is appalling.\u201d<\/p>\n