EXPLAIN AMPOFO’S DISMISSAL
The dismissal of Dr Kwame Ampofo, Managing Director of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), has been received by the New Patriotic Party and the Ghanaian public at large with total shock and dismay.
Dr Ampofo was employed by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government to correct the supposed NPP mismanagement of the state oil processing facility.
It is a matter of record that, as a result of the progressive policies put in place by the Kufuor administration, Ghanaians were freed from oil supply worries for the eight-year period of the NPP government. In fact, the oil in use in Ghana during the first eight months of the current NDC administration was bequeathed to it by the Kufuor government, which NDC functionaries are constantly maligning.
It is our recollection that, after taking over the administration of the country, the NDC touted Dr Ampofo as being a man of such expertise in the energy field that his assumption of the top management job at TOR would end the energy problems of Ghana once and for all. For him to be dismissed after such a short period at post, surely, indicates that something is seriously amiss, for which the people of Ghana are entitled to a full explanation.
It is noteworthy that the government was unable to assign proper and justifiable reasons for the dismissal of Dr Ampofo which followed agitation by the staff of TOR. Are we the people of Ghana right in assuming that the dismissal is a confirmation of the TOR employees’ claim that the NDC’s energy guru was not competent at his job? Or is it, as we suspect, due to the more serious case that the NDC leadership is so bereft of ideas about how to solve the fuel oil problem and is passing the blame on to Dr Ampofo?
The NPP believes that these are important questions which the NDC government should answer, and we do demand immediate answers.
Signed
Fred Oware First Vice Chairman (0244 782 358)
Source: GhanaWeb
