Mr. Chairman
Nananom,
Honourable Assembly Members,
Members of the GHEITI NSC,
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen.

Good morning and Welcome to this morning sensitization workshop on the Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in Ghana. We are in Jomoro today not only because it is in the Western Region where the bulk of our natural resources are found and produced, but because you are in the catchment area of where our new natural resources, namely oil and gas is found.

You are therefore an important stakeholder in ensuring that there is transparency in the revenues from the oil and gas resources that comes to government and in payments made by the oil and gas companies. It is also for this reason that is why Jomoro represents the communities in the oil and gas catchment areas on the Ghana EITI National Steering Committee.