Ghanaians should
discuss how the nation could
benefit from its natural resources
By Awudu Salami Sule,
Ghanadot
Dr Daniel Sedar,
lecturer at the Central University College has asked
Ghanaians to devote more time on discussing how the nation
could benefit from its natural resources such as gold and
diamond but not on oil.
According
the university lecturer, until the time Ghana starts to
drill its oil, it has no control over the prices of crude
oil on the world market and no amount of debate over it
could benefit the nation.
"But we
have control over our gold and cocoa and that is what we
should be discussing to find ways that we shall benefit
immensely from it", he said.
Dr
Sadar who was speaking in an interview noted that, prices of
gold and cocoa are going up on the world market but Ghana
benefits very little from it.
"This
is what all of us should be discussing but we are rather
wasting time discussing about fuel prices which the country
has no control over it", he noted.
He has therefore urged Ghanaians especially poltical
commentators to devote much of their time in providing
constructive ideas on how the country could developed it
natural resources to the benefit of the poor.
Ghanadot
