A former Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, Tsatsu Tsikata is asking for measures to build local capacity for the oil and gas industry. Mr. Tsikata who has advised Equatorial Guinea and Benin on oil said this is the only way the country can reap the full benefits of the oil find. “In our schools, in our institutions, we have develop the skills that are going to be needed in the [oil] industry and that is going to be a long-term process so we have start now…” he stated. Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata was speaking to Robert Nii Arday Clegg on the PM EXPRESS show on Multi TV last night. He said Ghana’s first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah had the foresight to train people in Romania, the United States and other parts of the world in oil and stressed the need for the efforts to train more professionals in the sector to be stepped up. Source: Joy News/Ghana