IT has now been established that the Board Chairman of Ghana Oil Company, Prof. William Asumaning, goofed when he falsely accused President Nana Addoa Dankwa Akufo-Addo of skipping due process in removing and appointing the chief executive officer of the oil company.
The board chairman of the company was recently in the news for the wrong reason when he vowed to disregard the president’s appointee to serve as CEO at GOIL.
In a statement he personally signed, Prof. William Asumaning hastily criticised the Akufo-Addo-led government without doing a proper background check to ascertain if the president had really appointed Mr. Osei Prempeh to serve as the new CEO of GOIL.
“The Board would like to draw the attention of the SHAREHOLDERS and the public to the fact that GOIL is a public listed company on the Ghana Stock Exchange with its own Regulations. The Regulations state the process through which a CEO can be appointed or removed,” a portion of his statement read.
It is based on this misleading notion that the presidency has stepped in to correct the false impression being fueled by Prof. William Asumaning.
Ag. Director of Communications at the presidency, Mr. Eugene Arhin, stopped Prof. William Asumaning in his tracks by issuing a statement to put an end to the news which was based on “mere speculation and conjecture by an online publication.”
In a statement copied to the media yesterday, Mr. Eugene Arhin described the statement by Prof. William Asumaning as “unfortunate” and “completely needless.”
According to the statement, Prof. Arhin could have saved himself from the embarrassment if he had done a background check before taking a swipe at the president.
The statement added that should the president decide to appoint a new CEO, he would do it in accordance with laid down procedures.
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