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NPP Press statement
8th July 2009
CD/PS/080709/01
THE RETURN OF FUEL SHORTAGES AND LONG QUEUES
The rampant fuel shortages and the associated long
queues at fuel stations that were so
common under the previous NDC administration
before 2001 are re-emerging under the
current NDC administration.
Between 2001 and the close of 2008 when the NPP
managed this country, fuel shortages
and long queues at fuel stations became a
thing of the past. The return of this
phenomenon in national life is most
unacceptable.
The daily bread of drivers, car-owners and their
dependants lean on the ready availability
of petroleum fuel. With the return of fuel
shortages, many ordinary Ghanaians would
suffer. Industries that use fuel directly
would cut back on production for lack of
fuel,causing workers to lose their jobs and their
livelihood. The adverse effects of these
shortages on the social and economic lives of
people are really harsh.
It would appear that the government does not
understand the effect of fuel shortages on
the livelihood of ordinary Ghanaians.
Increasingly, the inability of the NDC
administration to manage the economy and the
petroleum sub-sector is becoming obvious. First,
Ghanaians were promised drastic fuel
price reductions which never happened.
Instead, we have seen drastic fuel price increases.
At a crude oil price of US$64 per barrel, we are
buying fuel at an average price of GH¢5.00
per gallon. This compares with an average
price of GH¢5.20 per gallon a year ago when
crude oil price was US$147 per barrel.
On top of all this, government is still unable to
provide us with fuel to buy!
The NPP calls on the Mills administration to sit up.
Instead of government and its officials
spending the nation’s resources frivolously
on tea parties and amorous relationships, they
should channel resources into those things
that bring relief to Ghanaians.
Governance should be about people.
Kwaku Kwarteng
Communications Director
DEVELOPMENT IN FREEDOM
NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY
Headquarters, Private Mail Bag, Accra-North, Ghana
Tel: +233 21 227 737 / 229 030 / 228 104 Fax: +233
21 229 048
Email:
nnp@africaonline.com.gh
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