Nduom calls for petrochemical industry in Western Region
Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, Convention People’s Party (CPP) presidential candidate in Election 2008, has called for the establishment of a petrochemical industry in the Western Region to boost industrialisation in the area.
He was addressing students of Business and Applied Sciences of the Takoradi Polytechnic to mark the launch of their week celebration in Takoradi.
His topic was on the “Oil discovery, the task and opportunities available for the polytechnic graduate”.
Dr Nduom expressed concern about oil companies such as Tullow, Kosmos and others locating their head offices in Accra instead of the Western Region and said this was misplaced.
He said other natural resources were discovered in the region such as gold, bauxite, diamond and manganese but the region had been left worse off financially and environmentally degraded.
“The Western Region has so far been a loser in the development struggle, we must work harder to make sure this is not repeated with the oil discovery”, Dr Nduom said.
He said communities in which these resources had been mined over the years had not been transformed into modern, healthy and prosperous ones even though they had produced huge amounts of wealth.
Dr Nduom said the oil industry should provide opportunities for all and called on the government to provide a stable, selfless direction and efficient public service.
He said Ghanaians should be careful not to let the oil industry to become a commodity for politicians to offer as a prize to foreign and domestic supporters who fund their campaigns.
Dr Nduom appealed to polytechnic graduates to study hard to be advocates for change to ensure better living conditions for all.
Source: GNA
I agree 100% with Nduom on this subject of neo-colonialist exploitation of Western Region and the inaction and failure of each ruling party to develop region. To have multi-national corporations
take away wealth of the region to enrich themselves while areas of these resources wealth wallow in poverty,backwardness and mass unemployment DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. Where is our PATRIOTISM
and why have Ghanaians leaders become criminal accessory to massive exploitation and rape of our natural resources? Nduom is right on the core issues of economic disparities that have made
Western Region underdeveloped and the necessity to CHANGE things. Personally, I support 25% of the oil resource incomes to be allocated to development of Western Region in addition to annual budget slot. Nduom is talking about economic nationalism and the Western Region Development Fund is needed to jump start region’s
total modernisation.Nduom and I share same plan of action to move the West forward.
Well said, what about we the youth getting work to do, in order for us to contribute our quota towards the nation building.