A Senior Lecturer of the Department of Environmental Management, School of Natural Resources, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Dr Abdulai Darimani, has called for the establishment of a state institution to coordinate the United Nations (UN) Free Participation and Informed Consent (FPIC) on the extraction of the country's natural resources.
The body on FPIC had also become necessary to oversee citizen's participation and engagement as well as their interest in the allocation of concessions for companies for the exploitation of natural resources.
FPIC, a UN instrument, was approved in 2007 to protect local and indigenous communities.
The instrument enjoins member countries to seek the consent of indigenous or local communities in the extraction of natural resources located there.