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6th May 2010

PRESS STATEMENT

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)

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