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<\/p>\nMiss Munira Abubakari thereby advised\u00a0government\u00a0to judiciously expend the oil revenue on a few sustainable projects to alleviate the plight of the suffering masses.<\/p>\n
“We as a policy think-tank don’t think that it is good to spread money in that manner because it is difficult tracking where the money goes to.\u201d<\/p>\n
“…Besides, it also creates another problem where if you allocate money to a project and there are other funding sources coming to fund the same project, which is counterpart funding, it is really not easy tracking the money. Speaking to the right authorities and getting information on such projects becomes difficult because there are so many funding sources.”<\/p>\n
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She mentioned a decline in the\u00a0agric\u00a0sector where a chunk of the oil revenue is invested.<\/p>\n
She also complained about some government officials’ unwillingness to assist ACEP\u00a0collate\u00a0data needed to deepen social auditing and accountability on the oil revenue disbursement.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome government officials of certain departments do not cooperate with our team when we request for information as part of our mission to tracking the use of oil money.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ACEP team further sensitized students of the Tamale Technical University on the large deposits of iron ore at Sheini in the Tatale-Sanguli district of the Northern Region.<\/p>\n
OXFAM-Ghana is funding ACEP\u2019s tracking of the oil money projects, particularly in the\u00a0agric\u00a0sector.<\/p>\n
The team visited and interacted with officials of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the Irrigation Development Authority.<\/p>\n
The team has so far visited oil revenue funded projects such as the Zakpalsi irrigation project in the Northern Region, and the\u00a0Tankasi\u00a0and\u00a0Zuiding\u00a0irrigation projects in the Upper East Region.<\/p>\n
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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n
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