First One Hundred Days of Oil Production in Ghana

This paper discusses the events and happenings in Ghana within the first onehundred days of oil production. Using elite interviews and media reports, thepaper chronicles several challenges and problems including lack oftransparency, secrecy, consensus building, discontentment, etc that haveoccurred in the oil industry. Given that these were the same challenges thatcharacterized the preparatory processes prior to oil production, the paperargues that the challenges and problems of the oil industry within the firsthundred days of oil production are not mere teething problems but signs ofgreater challenges to come. The paper concludes on the note that timeousand prompt solution to these challenges is crucial in ensuring that the oilbecomes a blessing to the nation in so far as development and promotion ofgood governance and democracy are concerne