Deputy Minority Leader Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah has dismissed Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia\u2019s claim that fuel prices are reducing in Ghana due to the Gold-for-oil policy.<\/strong><\/p>\nHe says the drop in the price of fuel has nothing to do with the policy<\/p>\n
Speaking in Parliament on Thursday, March 16, the Ellembelle MP said \u201cThere is nowhere in this world where we do batter trade for oil, somebody should tell me where you take your gold and then you take the oil, there is nowhere in this world. So there is nothing like gold for oil.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Vice President is saying that petroleum prices are going down because of gold for oil, he is a vice president and he wants to be president, and so I am going to be very charitable but frankly, his advisors should advise him. The reason why petroleum prices have gone down is that crude prices were over 100 dollars and it got down to 72 dollars per barrel globally, it has nothing to do with Bawumia, it has nothing to do with gold for oil. It is shocking, it is unthinkable and this must be investigated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr Bawumia had stated that the Gold-for-Oil policy that was introduced by the government has stabilized the Exchange Rate.<\/p>\n
He also said the policy has resulted in a decline in fuel prices.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a forum organized by the Bulk Oil Storage and Transformation (BOST) company in Accra, on Wednesday, March 15, Dr Bawumia said \u201cI am happy to note that the Gold-for-Oil policy is the first policy of its kind in Ghana since independence to address this type of balance of payment crisis that we face. In my humble opinion, this is the most important macroeconomic policy intervention to deal with the exchange rate depreciation, fuel prices, food prices, and inflation nexus that we have had.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a result of the policy, we have not only seen a decline in the price from 23 Cedis per liter to around 12 Cedis per liter, we have also seen stability in the exchange rate as we predicted. I say all thanks should go to the Ministry of Energy, to BOST, to NPA, the Bank of Ghana, the\u00a0Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources\u00a0and the PMMC who rose up to the occasion when we faced those crises of rapidly depreciating currency along with rapidly increasing fuel, transportation, and food prices.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr Bawumia earlier justified the \u2018Gold-for Crude\u2019 programme saying that it is an innovative way of easing the pressure on the local currency against the major trading ones, especially the Dollar.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the 74th annual new year school of the University of Ghana on Tuesday, January 17, he said while justifying the programme that \u201d How are we going to change this whole way of doing business as far as our natural resources were concerned? Take the case of gold in Ghana, we have mined gold for over 200 years, and when I looked at the data I realized that our total reserves of gold in Ghana was just\u00a0 8.7 tonnes at the end of 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the largest gold mining countries, we are in the top 10 in the world but we have not accumulated gold to build our reserves.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe looked at the other side of the balance sheet, we export gold and we import oil. The cost of oil import is about 3 billion dollars a year. So we ask the simple question, why don\u2019t we, since we have always got pressure in finding US Dollars to buy oil,\u00a0 rather reach an agreement to change our gold for oil and then, sell the oil in Cedis and then, use the Cedis to buy more gold, use that gold to pay for oil, sell the oil in Cedis and then you don\u2019t need to look for the scarce foreign exchange to buy oil, which always leads to depreciation on the currency.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith this idea, we said, let us do something that the textbooks don\u2019t teach you, let us do something that is out of the box and this is why we said gold-for-oil. We quickly looked at this and we negotiated with the suppliers of oil who were very excited and happy to receive gold in payment. Thankfully, yesterday, Monday, Ghana took its first delivery of oil under the gold-for-oil programme.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the cargo to test the framework to see if everything that has been put in place will work and by the grace of God, it is clear that the framework will work and if that should happen we are going to save a lot of foreign exchange and reduce the pressure on our currency.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Chief Executive Officer of the\u00a0National Petroleum Authority\u00a0(NPA) Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid recently said that Ghana received 40,000MT of diesel and 35,000MT of petrol at a cost of 40 million Dollars which has just arrived and is being discharged,<\/p>\n
He indicated that in consultation with the\u00a0Association of Oil Marketing Companies\u00a0(AOMCs), it had been decided that only Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) with 45 retail outlets would receive products.<\/p>\n
This was to ensure that the impacts of the G4O programme were felt by consumers across the country, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this second consignment of gold for oil products that have come we are going to sell only to OMCs with not less than 45 outlets because there are 150 OMCs , if you are selling in pieces to all the 150 OMCs you will not realize the impact but if you are selling to the people with the highest number of outlets then its effect will be felt across the country in terms of the prices reduction,\u201d he said at a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, February 22.<\/p>\n
Ghana took delivery of the first consignment, 40,000 metric tons of oil at the Tema port on Sunday, January 15, 2023.<\/p>\n
The gold for oil initiative is an attempt by the government to move away from the US dollar for international transactions.<\/p>\n
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