COPEC’s March To Nowhere 

The Chamber Of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) is gaining political notoriety at a dizzying speed having girded its loin for a fight with the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company Limited; the basis for the duel so watery and useless the mischievous motive is clear.

Although it purports to be championing the cause of consumers of petroleum products and matters pertaining to economics of the energy source, the pressure group, if it passes for one, is rather pursuing a political agenda in a subtle yet mischievous way.

Such epic score-settling campaigns will always end up pushing the pursuers falling over the precipice as it is beginning to become evident.

The story of the grouping whose activities of late have left us in no doubt about their motive and how they intend going about it has now mutated into a decision to move to the office of the Public Prosecutor: the last lap.

This coming after a press conference by BOST to expose the man behind the smelly campaign suggests the creeping frustration of COPEC. After the initial major faux pas when it started the project, pitching its camp at the Special Prosecutor is looking like an option for it.

Mr. Martin Amidu should as a matter of exigency deal with Awuah Darko before peeping into the gourd of complaints brought by COPEC. We must, as Ghanaians, be told how the man, now at large, incurred so much debt for the company.

The claim of the grouping about supporting the public purse sounds ironic when juxtaposed against the reality on the ground. The state of indebtedness of BOST under the previous political administration in the country is enormous.

With details of the cause of the indebtedness especially, the man whose mismanagement led the company to that milestone, it beats imagination that COPEC would want to rivet its attention on the management of the company which is basking in the bad ways of its predecessors.

If the idea of COPEC is to destroy the CEO of BOST as an indirect means of discrediting the government and hanging it, then they should rest assured that they have failed even before the first shot is fired.

We have noticed the pains the brains behind the anti-BOST project have endured to spread the venous word.

Darku Awuah is still at large. We wish that COPEC directs its efforts towards having the gentleman return home to answer possible charges regarding his mismanagement of BOST instead of embarking on a wild goose chase about nothing.

It would appear that somebody is not understanding the nuances of the oil industry regarding the BB Energy transaction with the eyes of a novice or playing the buffoonery as a surrogate of someone overseas. It is better to turn down an offer with strings attached than oblige and injure the public interest.