The GNPC is now chaired by Ato Ahwoi a stalwart of the NDC but its powers have been whittled away...
The once dominant Ahwoi family based in Central Region has managed to hold on to important positions: Ato Ahwoi remains Chairman of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation...
Mahama has brought in his own team sidelining a broadly Akan-Fante-Nzema clique whose primary loyalty is to Ato Ahwoi Chairman of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC AC Vol 50 No 8 The Mills grind slowly)...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 1 |
- GHANA
- CHINA
Analysts point to turf wars in the early days of the NDC government between Energy Minister Joe Oteng-Adjei who favours a more technocratic approach to government involvement and a bigger role for his ministry and a broadly pro-GNPC faction including his former deputy Kwabena Donkor GNPC chairman Ato Ahwoi and current Managing Director Nana Boakye Asafu-Adjaye...
Ato Ahwoi is the de facto prime minister; former security chiefs Captain (Retired) Kojo Tsikata and Kofi Totobi Quakyi are trusted advisors; and Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor another close advisor to Mills is Chairman of the Council of State...
The Chairman of GNPC Ato Ahwoi is one of John Mills’s closest political allies from the central region...
Critics of the deal on the newly appointed GNPC board chaired by Ato Ahwoi are concerned at the way in which Kosmos and its local partners EO Group whose directors are George Owusu and Kwame Bawuah Edusei secured what they regard as preferential terms...
In a piece which infuriated GNPC Chairman Ato Ahwoi the Journal described the government's stance on Kosmos as 'capricious government meddling' and the 'kind of official thuggery more frequently associated with Nigeria'...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 11 |
- GHANA
- OIL AND GAS
- ASIA
At the 2009 India-Africa Hydrocarbons Summit Ghana's Deputy Energy Minister Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah was blasé about Indian overtures saying that 'a lot of companies are interested' in Jubilee - but GNPC Chairman Ato Ahwoi has been on several official visits to New Delhi...
Other targets are Vice-President John Dramani Mahama; Paul Victor ('PV') Obeng who headed Mills's political transition team; the brothers Kwamena Kwesi and Ato Ahwoi; former Finance Minister Kwame Peprah; and the NDC's one-time éminence grise former security chief Kojo Tsikata...