The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has held a day’s public forum on the country’s petroleum revenue between 2011 and 2016 at Denu in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region.

PIAC also used the opportunity to explain the extent to which such incomes have benefited the citizens of the country.

The one-day forum brought together heads of departments and agencies in the municipality, non-governmental organizations, civil society groups, representative of identifiable bodies as well as some Assembly Members and media practitioners.

Vice Chairman of PIAC, Kwame Jantuah took participants through six years of petroleum production in Ghana, including what such revenues have been used for over the period.

The forum gave opportunity to the participants to seek further clarifications and how they could lobby for oil revenue to be used in their communities.

Speaking to Joy News after the forum, Mr. Jantuah stressed the need for government to ensure value for money for all projects including oil-funded works.

According to him, the delay in releasing funds for some road projects which resulted in an undue and long completion dates is unacceptable.

The GJA President, Roland Affail  Monney who is also a member of the committee stressed the need for journalists to continue to play their watchdog roles which is to hold all government and public officials accountable to the people.

He added that this is the only way Ghanaians would not be short-changed.

“As journalists, there the need to continually play your watchdogs role to hold government and public officials accountable to the good people of Ghana,” Dr Monney said.

The project was sponsord by GIZ and the government of Ghana [GOG]in collaboration with institute of financial and economic journalists [IFEJ]