Editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul
Malik Kweku Baako, wants the Navy to move in to protect Ghana’s territorial
waters over the disputed oil-rich C-100 region because the Ivorian authorities
are not interested in a peaceful solution. Alarmed by Ivory Coast’s changing
and “insincere” stance over a disputed territory, the Editor-In-Chief of the
New Crusading Guide newspaper feels “a hunch” that “Ghana ought to begin to
defend its territorial seas”. In a high profile diplomatic maritime dispute,
Ghana has initiated arbitration proceedings under the UN Convention on the Law
of the Sea (UNCLOS) after nearly four years of negotiations failed to
resolve the dispute between it and Ivory Coast. According to the former
Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, Ghana and
Ivory Coast had exchanged maps of coastal lines and held as many as 10 meetings in a
bid to resolve the dispute over the territory that holds about 2 billion
barrels of oil and 1.2 trillion cubic feet of gas. The dispute began in 2010
after oil was discovered in the Dzata-1 deepwater-well which Ivory Coast is
claiming infringes on their territorial independence. But Attorney-General and
Minister of Justice Mrs. Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong has told the nation, Ghana
has a good case. Weighing into the discussion on Joy FM’s news analysis
programme Newsfile, Kweku Baako noted the Ivoirians are displaying a certain
level of insincerity. He read out a letter from the Ivorian authorities
threatening petroleum companies working in the disputed area.
Source:myjoyonline.com
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