{"id":440,"date":"2023-01-02T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/02\/gold-for-oil-policy-to-give-politicians-control-acep-boss-raises-concerns\/"},"modified":"2023-01-02T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T14:30:08","slug":"gold-for-oil-policy-to-give-politicians-control-acep-boss-raises-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/02\/gold-for-oil-policy-to-give-politicians-control-acep-boss-raises-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold-for-oil policy to give politicians control &#8211; ACEP boss raises concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\"  alt=\"\" title=\"benacep\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/benacep.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/benacep.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"benacep\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Executive Director of African Center for Energy Policy (ACEP), Benjamin Boakye, has raised concerns about the gold-for-oil policy announced by the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, recently.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By the policy, cheap petroleum products will be imported into the country in exchange for its gold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe demand for foreign exchange by oil importers in the face of dwindling foreign exchange reserves results in the depreciation of the Cedi and increases in the cost of living with higher prices for fuel, transportation, utilities, etc,\u201d Vice President Bawumia explained in announcing the new programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo address this challenge, government is negotiating a new policy regime where our gold (rather than our US dollar reserves) will be used to buy oil products. The barter of sustainably mined gold for oil is one of the most important economic policy changes in Ghana since independence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Boakye said aside the policy not thought through that well by government, its structure seeks to hand control of the country\u2019s gold and oil ue chain to politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe structure presented as \u2018Gold 4 Oil\u2019 only seeks to hand control of the gold and oil ue chain to politicians,\u201d he wrote on Thursday, December 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo other ue can be deduced. It is obvious that if cheap oil comes to Ghana, other unknown factors will be responsible. Not gold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that the government should rather come clean on the policy \u201cto justify its competitiveness to the current private sector led approach\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the government to commence a potential $8 billion annual transaction (approximately $4 billion on gold and oil, respectively) with no credible information to the public on the parties involved in the external realm is terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the new policy could escalate the smuggling of gold from the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country has been struggling to account for volumes of gold produced in the small-scale sector for years because of tax evasion and illegal gold traders who aggressively compete on price. Making PMMC the sole gold buyer could be the worse that happened to the government\u2019s efforts to raise tax revenue from the sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>));\/**\/<\/script><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Director of African Center for Energy Policy (ACEP), Benjamin Boakye, has raised concerns about the gold-for-oil policy announced by the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, recently. 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