Ghanaian President John Atta Mills said Thursday his government will soon submit to parliament an oil and gas revenue management bill ahead of planned oil production in the last quarter of this year.

“Ghana is preparing an oil and gas revenue management bill to be submitted to the parliament for approval,” he told lawmakers while presenting his state of the nation address.

“The [Oil and Gas Revenue Management] bill will ensure transparency in management and will commit the bulk of the oil revenue to a shared growth fund to finance investments and infrastructure development,” he said.

Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)

THE Programme Officer of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the Western Region, Mr. Kwame Diewuo, has disclosed that the agency's preliminary investigations so far conducted into the operations of the West Africa Gas Pipeline (WAGP) project have confirmed that WAGP operations have led to the pollution of the sea at Aboadze.

Consequently, the agency, he said, would continue to conduct intensive investigations to prove that the WAGP was responsible for the pollution of the sea.

Speaking at the meeting of the chiefs and people of Aboadze over the pollution of the sea, the Programme Officer requested that residents of the affected areas took the samples of their urine and blood to medical laboratories for tests to see if the pollution had affected them.