Was anybody else watching that?
Published:
October 16, 2014 at 8:25pm
Posted by Paul B just now:
Rajtuh in-news tal-PBS ta’ 8pm?
Film li juri lil Konrad Mizzi ma’ ftit nies mil-ministeru u zewg Cinizi li qalu li hi delegazzjoni.
Jien ghalija kienet a staged propaganda film li juri lil dawn in-nies mal-ministru iharsu lejn xi trucks ta’ Polidano jitfaw terrapien u wara iharsu lejn makkinarju.
Imma kollha bdew joqoghdu u jimxu ghall-kamera qishom actors.
A familiar scene from the general election campaign of 2013. Because we’ve forgotten already that originally it was Il-Guy who was talking about the Labour Party’s electrical road map – and when they realised he was barely coherent they let Con-Rod take over.
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And now he’s going to be paid €25,000 monthly to be barely coherent.
And have you heard that his chef de cabinet will not be Maltese? Do you know why? Not because there’s nobody who can do the job but because there’s nobody in the MLP who can do the job.
And no one outside the PL would want to do it.
I believe they’re fending off capable Maltese, even from other offices, stone-walling them, so that Taghna Lkollers get the placements.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141016/local/top-shanghai-electric-officials-in-malta-for-power-station-technical-talks.539986
( video supplied by government ) ?
You know what, judging by everything that has been going on, and the description of this news item, I can’t help but think that there is some sort of shady operation to get a whole load of money from their passports scheme and then just leave the country with it.
Whenever I saw clips of Mizzi or Muscat talking about the power station, they either spoke with too much conviction, or with a big smile, sometimes even laughing, as though the joke was on us.
Con-rod is high on positivity. Not a good sign for Malta.
http://www.tvm.com.mt/news/bil-filmat-l-electrogas-u-shangai-electric-jiltaqghu-fdellimara/
For TVM it’s Dellimara.
Speechless. No words!
Very professionally scripted, dear Mr Lipstick – including the usual, ingenuous, well-practised ear-to-ear grin.
Utterly stupid, yes, but otherwise very well recited.
Pull the other one.
Another Kurt Farrugia Production and sequel to the Martin Galea Homecoming Disaster.
By any chance, did Muscat learn how to run a country from these two masters of British humour?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4m_ajuNmSA
Meanwhile, on 13 October, while Konrad Mizzi was humiliating himself and Malta in China, Afren plc, a company listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange, has dismissed its CEO and COO from their employment and directorships at the company.
See under latest news on website here:
http://www.afren.com/
Afren was co-founded around the year 2005 by Ethelbert J.L.Cooper (Liberian), Rilwanu Lukman (Nigerian, now deceased) and Osman Shahenshah (Pakistani).
Ethelbert J.L. Cooper is also founder and majority controller of Gasol plc (a shell company) through African Gas Development Corporation – a company registered in The Seychelles, a highly secretive tax haven. Gasol owns a stake of 30%, and is project lead developer, in the Electrogas Malta Consortium.
The Sunday Times (of London) described Mr. Cooper’s various shell companies as “a go-between for the Chinese.”
On 13 October, in two press releases, Afren announced that it has dismissed Mr. Shahenshah, who was the CEO, and Shahid Ullah, the COO, for “gross misconduct.”
Another two associate directors were also dismissed for similar reasons.
All four had been suspended by Afren’s board in separate announcements in July and August.
A number of current and former employees were also involved in irregularities and the company announced disciplinary action as applicable.
Afren has instructed its legal counsel to initiate legal proceedings to recover sums involved in unauthorised payments.
According to the press releases, the dismissal of Mr. Shahenshah and Mr. Ullah is based on evidence found in an investigation by an independent law firm which shows that the two officers had received unauthorised payments from third parties.
The press releases contain details of irregularities identified by the independent legal firm.
On the subject of unauthorised payments, the release explains how Mr. Shahenshah and Mr. Ullah set up a company in the British Virgin Islands with the name of Ntiti BVI (isn’t that a cute name?) which they owned and/or controlled. Meanwhile, in 2013 they entered into an agreement with Oriental Energy Resources Limited – a partner company which operates the Ebok oil field in Nigeria jointly with Afren – under which, in return for Mr. Shahenshah and Mr. Ullah facilitating a funding of $400 million by Afren to Oriental, Oriental would pay to Ntiti BVI, or to a related company named Ntiti Bermuda BVI, 15% of cash flows received by Oriental from Ebok in 2013 to 2017. This agreement was never discussed by the board of Afren.
For 2013, Oriental paid the staggering sum of $45 million to the Ntiti companies, out of which Mr. Shahenshah and Mr. Ullah paid special bonuses amounting to $17.1 million to themselves, in addition to other bonuses intended to secure the services of some employees working at Afren on Oriental projects.
Mr. Shahenshah and Mr. Ullah also tried to obtain financial benefit – possibly in the form of equity – out of another transaction in which Afren agreed to finance the management buy out of AMNI International Petroleum Development Company Limited – another company involved in oil well operations with Afren.
Afren’s press releases contain no information about what criminal action may be taken against those involved in the wrong doing found at the company.
Mr. Shahenshah was a director of Gasol up to 2012.
Up to a month ago, Gasol’s website (which has now been revamped) featured with prominence details about Gasol’s claimed strategy in West Africa, which was presented as intertwined with that of Afren. Prominent reference to this cooperation was included also in a Q&A session with the current COO of Gasol, Alan Buxton, which was available on Gasol’s website. It is difficult to imagine how such inter-linked strategy could have worked without active involvement of Mr. Shahenshah and Mr. Ullah.
Mr. Cooper and Mr. Shahenshah, together with Mr. Egbert Imohoh, now Chairman of Afren, were pictured doing charity here:
http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Osman+Shahenshah/Bonhams+NY+Africa+Now+Reception+Keep+Child/pheXVLN_k85
Regrettably, it doesn’t look like Mr. Shahenshah and Mr. Ullah’s BVI companies were set up for philanthropy in Africa…
On a side note, the company also reported that it is searching for a replacement of the two directors. Perhaps Konrad Mizzi and Sai Mizzi should consider the vacancies.
Note the presence logged Ciccio:
http://aow.globalpacificpartners.com/events/?fa=sponsors&id=873
This is an old one, but the line that interests me here is this:
“Cette opération permet à Gasol d’accéder à des projets de pipeline existants putôt que d’avoir à développer ses propres infrastructures.”
This operation/deal permits Gasol to access/ to have access to existing pipeline projects rather than having to develop its own infrastructures.
http://economie.jeuneafrique.com/regions/afrique-subsaharienne/12438-guinee-equatoriale-gasol-se-connecte-avec-afgen.html
The reply to your concern is in the same article.
Gasol’s strategy in West Africa was (not clear if still is, but what is clear about Gasol anyway?) that of gaining access to the West African Gas Pipeline, a pipeline which was initiated in the early 1980s and completed in 2004, with the intention of carrying gas from Nigeria’s gas reserves to some of the Western African countries in the ECOWAS, namely Benin, Togo and Ghana, giving hope to millions of people living in poor conditions to access electricity at a cheap price (think what Muscat is trying to do in Malta, and think about philanthropy projects in aid of poor African people).
However, it turned out that not only the pipeline project took more than 2 decades to materialise, but after it was commissioned, there was not enough gas flowing from Nigeria to meet demand in the neighbouring countries. There was also sabotage on the pipeline.
Gasol’s strategy was that, until it acquires its own gas reserves in Nigeria, it would build an FSRU terminal at Cotonou harbour in Benin, from where it could feed LNG gas (in gasified form) to intermediariy pipelines leading into the WAGP from where it could then sell its gas to Benin, Togo and Ghana.
This part becomes very interesting, because it touches with a subject which I intended to write about some time in the future, but maybe I can give some details here.
In Ghana, in June this year, Gasol signed an LNG supply deal with the Volta River Authority, the national entity responsible for electricity production in Ghana. The VRA knows its name to the Volta Lake, located on the Volta River, where dams administered by the VRA have since the 1960s provided most, but not all, of Ghana’s electricity requirements. The Volta Lake is the world’s largest water reservoir by surface area.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=311243
(The LNG volumes announced here are in gaseous state, not in liquid state as announced for Marsaxlokk, Malta).
Gasol’s deal in Ghana is to supply gas to the VRA for use in the powerstations which run on gas (VRA has diversified its powerstation portfolio), and, as you can see, this is very similar to the arrangement that Gasol is trying to achieve here in Malta with Enemalta.
Having established a strategic alliance agreement with Socar Trading for the supply of LNG, signed in 2012, Gasol can import LNG in Benin and feed to Ghana through the WAGP. The WAGP serves as a common infrastructure, and parties can use that infrastructure to feed in x volume of gas, and take that same volume x of gas out of the pipeline further down along the pipe.
The point is that, one of the main gas plants in Ghana is the 200MW Sunon Asogli Power Plant, which has Chinese owners. It is in fact one of the first plants to be built by independent power producers in Ghana. Need I say more?
Read more here, and think Ghana-China-Malta.
http://www.modernghana.com/news/371737/1/asogli-plant-produces-15-power-in-2011.html
Due to the WAGP gas supply disruptions, this plant has been practically at a stand still since 2012.
Polidano sabih !! What about tal Maghtab construction ? The guys who built the Centru Nazzjonali laburista 20years ago ? Or did they find them from the yellow pages too ? wake up PN media !!
Con-rod? You mean Con-man.
Anybody could see that the construction site inspection with our Chinese lords was all staged up and nothing is happening on the new power station site.
So they got a contractor to get a few trucks of useless backfill, dump it and spread it while the cameras were rolling, and probably picked it all up again after. The spin on PBS news was sickening.
No idea why they’re playing sandcastles when material should be taken off site.
As for the hard hats and high heels, not really appropriate. I remember our sales department insisting on keeping packets of new socks to go with the safety shoes reserved for clients.
But that was Carmen Camilleri Ciantar in her better days.
Is it just me or does everyone want to slap him across the face when he’s talking?
And why does he always look like he’s about to sneeze?
Oh and while I’m at it, Fenominali, the lipgloss makes you look like a tranny.