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| Section of participants at the exhibition show |
Government has been urged to expedite efforts at ensuring that the chunk of the proceeds of the country’s oil find is used to develop the three regions of the north. Also government should take pragmatic steps in ensuring that deprived schools benefit fully from the said oil proceeds. These were put across by some students at the just ended Jubilee Oil Exhibition held at Bolgatanga, the Upper East Regional capital. The Jubilee oil exhibition spearheaded by Tullow Ghana Limited oil and supported by the Nabuke Foundation in conjunction with the Centre for National Culture is the second in the series to be held in the region and forms part of the nationwide Jubilee first oil exhibition tour. In attendance were a section of the public as well as students from some selected second cycle schools and tertiary institutions across the region. Participating students at the exhibition exercise were taken through photo exhibition on oil history and discovery, exploration processes, appraisal, and preparation of actual production among other oil disciplines. Two final year students both from Zorkor Senior High School, Beatrice Atanga and Ayamba Moses Awine expressed their deepest gratitude to Tullow Oil Ghana for such laudable initiative and further expressed the hope that the exploration of the oil find will come to salvage the poor and the less disadvantaged in society. They were of the firm believe that Tullow oil through prudent and efficient managerial practices will channel much of the proceeds of the oil find to eradicate poverty in Northern Ghana and parts of Brong Ahafo and Volta Region where majority of the people wallow in abject poverty. They also seized the opportunity to appeal to the government through the Ministry of Education to come to the aid of their school since they lack the needed teaching aid and school infrastructure to enhance effective teaching and learning at the school. Apiok Janet from the Bolgatanga Girls Senior High also stressed the urgent need for government to develop the road sector and the less endowed schools in the region to pave way for massive development. The Regional Director, Centre for National Culture, Mr. Kombat Fuzzy explained to Radio Ghana that the high turn up of the exhibition exercise despite the short notices, was quite encouraging. This to him was an ample indication that the oil find will be a blessing to all Ghanaians. He said Ghana will have no justifications for failures as there are useful lessons to be drawn from the bitter lessons from Nigeria and other oil producing countries. Mr. Fuzzy was of the view that as Ghana continues to harvest its rich oil, there was the need to judiciously harness the rich resource to promote the country’s culture, agric and the general economic growth. He cautioned Ghanaians to be mindful of oil leakages, conflicts, sales, under-invoicing, displacements of people, uneven development and other negativities in ensuring that Ghana as a whole derive the needed socio-economic benefit from the country’ oil find.
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