On its 98th Annual General Meeting

By Dr Steve Manteaw, Co-Chair, GHEITI Multi-Stakeholder Group

Accra, 5 June 2026

I stand on the established protocol to bring you warm greetings from the Ghana Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, and I take this opportunity to express the governing body’s solidarity with the Chamber as you reflect on the contribution of mining to national development, looking at the past, the present and future prospects in a fast-changing mining ecosystem in Ghana and in the West Africa sub-region.

The Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) has followed keenly the ongoing public debate on Ghana’s new mineral royalty regime, and wishes to make a few observations to set the debate in its proper perspective:

The Ghana Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) on 31st December, 2025 published its 2023 reconciliation reports for mining, oil and gas. The publication brings to 31, the total number of reports published since the inception of the initiative in Ghana. The 31 reports comprise of 19 mining and 12 oil and gas reports.

The Ghana Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) on June 30, 2024 published its 2021 – 2022 reconciliation reports for mining, oil and gas. The publication brings to 29, the total number of reports published since Ghana acceded to the initiative, made up of 18 mining and 11 oil and gas reports. It also closes the reporting gap which emerged following the sudden demise of the former GHEITI Coordinator, the late Bashiru Abdul Razak and which disrupted the GHEITI work programme in 2023.