Senegal president wants more for their crude oil. In Ghana Bawumia wants to do away with Ghana's oil

In Ghana, Dr. Bawumia promises to do away with our crude oil to be replaced with new technologies for our energy needs. Well, what Ghana gets from its oil is so negligible that Bawumia sees it better to move away from it. Same black race, different, sensible thoughts. In this case, the sense is in Senegal. Read on_ .

The new *young and energetic* leadership of Senegal is poised, well determined to be right, and to do right by its people. The new president and those he'd surrounded himself with are willing to keep faith with people who elected them, the Senegalese people.

The story is that before the present socio-economic and politically progressive generation voted to bring a positive change, the new president and his lieutenants in opposition had promised to put right the wrongs of the previous administration. And indeed, lo! and behold!, as it is said, cometh the hour, cometh the real men.

The new president insist on renegotiating an oil production(oil drilling) agreements reached between the previous *corrupt* administration and the Australian oil company, Woodside in which the legal owners of the natural resource in oil, Senegal would have a paltry 18% stake while the rest goes to the foreign company.

The new *young & energetic* rulers of Senegal are notwithstanding the noises coming high and loud from certain quarters advising against renegotiating an existing oil drilling agreement, arguing that it may spooke or frighten foreign investors into the country. The president is adamant saying, it is only fair and right that the country that has the natural resource should be the majority owners of the wealth and so, his administration, his cabinet is die-cast to make sure Senegal benefits from its oil. I wish them well.

Now, juxtapose this to our situation in Ghana. Our leaders, whenever the opportunity had presented itself for negotiations with foreigners for a stake in the wealth of natural resources, they have placed more emphasis on their illicit personal gains rather than in the collective interest of the sovereign state as a whole.

It is a fact that, ever since we became masters of our own destiny, our leaders have turned to recognise personal gains and have neglected the value of getting a lion's share of proceeds for our people. As a result, Ghana, a country that is endowed with so much natural wealth, our fate is that which is cast in perpetual want and wallowing in misery.

*As a result, Ghana has virtually gained nothing from the numerous natural wealth deposited within our sovereign soils. That is why the vice president, Dr. Bawumia is campaigning and promising to do away with or discard our status as oil producing country in favour of newly invented and new-make technologies to replace the oil that we are supposed to have in abundance and for which we, as a sovereign Ghana should benefit.

What a bloody shame!*