BBC NEWS | Africa | Chad's oil watchdog 'powerless' - The Diigo Meta page

• 15 Dec 06
  

  Arabica Robusta

  A committee set up to oversee oil revenues in Chad has protested about lack of resources from the government and oil company involved.
  The central African state became an oil producer last year.
  
  The committee was set up under a World Bank plan to tr

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  • a senior member said neither Exxon Mobil - which has built a pipeline to export the crude - nor the government were providing sufficient information. 

     A rather staid anti-corruption conference in London came alive when Therese Mekombe, vice-president of the Chadian oversight committee, got up to speak.

  •      He said the Chadian economy was set to grow by more than 20% a year as a result of oil revenues.  

      But Mrs Mekombe continued to paint a negative picture of both the oil company and the Chadian government.

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