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Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) in Labone, Ghana; courtesy of Wikipedia Ghana has rewritten some of the agreements it uses with oil and gas companies, requiring them to certify compliance with the FCPA, the Bribery Act, and the OECD anti-bribery incometaxefiling convention.
“We are encouraged that petroleum incometaxefiling agreements for the first time in Ghana's history contain provisions that shun corruption especially through bribery or any inducement of public officials, politicians and political parties,” said Mohammed Amin Adam, ACEP's Executive Director.
Each contractor party warrants that neither it nor any of its Affiliates or any of their officers, directors or employers incometaxefiling has made, offered, incometaxefiling or authorized incometaxefiling and will not make, offer, or authorize with respect to the matters which are the subject of this Agreement, any payment, gift, promise or other advantage, whether directly or through any other person or entity, to or for the use or benefit of any public official (i.e. any person holding a legislative, administrative or judicial office, including any person employed by or acting on behalf of a public agency, a public enterprise or a public international organization) or any political party or political party official or candidate for office, where such payment, gift, promise or advantage would violate to the extent applicable to such Party, (i) the applicable laws of Ghana; (ii) the laws of the country of incorporation of such Party or such Party’s ultimate parent company; (iii) the principles described in the Convention on Combating Bribery incometaxefiling of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, signed in Paris on December 17, 1977, which entered into force on February 15, 1999, and the Convention’s Commentaries; incometaxefiling (iv) the United incometaxefiling States of America Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977; and (v) the United Kingdom Bribery Act 2010.
The ACEP noted that this clause is included provided in four out of the six new petroleum agreements. The ACEP has been campaigning for anti-corruption clauses to be put in all of the agreements. 
One speaker referred to the FCPA's premise that c corporate bribery is bad business and fundamentally destructive of the basic tenet that the sale of products should take place on the basis of price, quality and service. incometaxefiling
I am in contract logistics and just returned from Ghana. incometaxefiling Compliance is the name of the game. If you want a model of this go to Conship Ltd. They were just interviewed by Fortune UK for their position in Ghana's commercial fabric.
As a younger man, my first encounter with corruption was in Ghana. I was (I suppose naively) horrified at how it affected everything we did and proposed to do in the mining incometaxefiling sector. So much, that eventually, it drove me away. It is gratifying to see that Ghana is maturing. I am, however, interested to see whether it will be effective as a deterrent.