?Gods? holding up gas project? Sipa-Yankey challenges Ghanaian Pastors

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The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Gas Company Limited, Dr. George Adjah Sipa-Yankey has challenged the Ghanaian pastor who suggested that even children could exorcise deities threatening to undermine the Gas project in the Western region to go there himself and do so to save the nation money to be used in the rituals demanded by the gods.

Dr Sipa-Yankey was responding to claims by the Head Pastor of Freedom Chapel International, Apostle Francis Amoako-Atta that there was no need to pacify the gods, who had held up construction works, insisting any good pastor, even Sunday School children could drive the said gods out of the area.

They both spoke on Adom FM?s midday news on Tuesday September 18, 2012.

The challenge from the CEO of the gas company has become necessary following threats by some of the gods to derail the project despite the rituals performed to pacify them. Dr Yankey had earlier called on Government to consider bringing in Nigerian Pastor T. B. Joshua.

Six of the original seven gods have agreed to vacate their abode to allow for construction works on the national gas pipeline project being undertaken by Sinopec of China on behalf of the Ghana Gas Company.

The last set of gods, said to be in a huge tree, are demanding a cow, schnapps and other things before they move.

According to Dr Yankey, although the gods are happy about the project, they do not relish being moved to a foreign land to be refugees hence their unwillingness to vacate the major tree they currently occupy.

Dr. Sipa-Yankey had earlier hinted that the country?s desire to build a world class gas infrastructure in the Western Region is being threatened by the smaller gods, and called on the nation?s pastors to intervene.

He noted that if the pastors fail to intervene, the nation would be left with no choice but to pacify the deities within the shortest possible time.

In another development, Dr George Sipa-Yankey, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Gas Company, has disclosed that the Ghana gas project, which normally should have taken three years to complete, had been fast tracked and is scheduled to be completed in one year. This is to save the wells from collapse, as gas realized during the drilling of oil is being injected back into the wells or flared.

Thus, Ghanaians should expect to receive gas from the Jubilee and other fields by the end of the first quarter of 2013.

Dr Yankey, who made the disclosure on Adom FM?s Dwaso Nsem morning show on Tuesday September 18, 2012 said a tank farm and a small quay are scheduled to be built in January 2013 at Domuli in the Western region to facilitate the storage and transport of the gas to other parts of the country.

Pipes will also be laid to other parts of the country as far as Kumasi to ease distribution, he added.

The Ghana Gas CEO defended Chinese company Sinopec which is constructing the gas infrastructure, arguing that apart from presenting a competitive bid, the company has a solid reputation in the oil and gas industry, having worked in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Brazil.

He confirmed that Sinopec had pre-financed the project, mainly because the Chinese government had assured the late President Mills of providing the proposed $3bn loan, and also because of the good relations between the two countries.

Listen to Dr Yankey’s claim about the gods holding up the gas project.

From: Ghana l Adomonline.com l Frank Agyei-Twum

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