The Chairman of the Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas, Dr Steve Manteaw, has called for the transformation of the country’s legal regime to give independence to state accountability institutions to enable them to function effectively. That, he said, would help in the fight against corruption, especially in the extractive sector, such as the mining industry. “If we really want to fight corruption in the sector, we should think of legal arrangements that provide independence for people appointed to head state accountability institutions in the country, to the extent that the President could even be a subject of investigations by these agencies,” he said.