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Upper East Security Council draws up plan to check
smuggling of fuel
Bolgatanga, March 27, Ghanadot/GNA- As part of measures to check
the smuggling of petroleum products, to neighbouring countries
in the Upper East Region, the Regional Security Council (REGSEC),
has directed that no fuel filling station should be allowed to
operate after 1900 hours.
REGSEC also directed that any Fuel station that would be caught
condoning and conniving with smugglers would be closed down.
Mr Mark Wayongo, Regional Minister and Chairman of the REGSEC
gave the warning when REGSEC held a stakeholder meeting with
Fuel Station dealers in Bolgatanga to help curb the shortage of
petrol in the Region as a result of smuggling activities.
"Government will not sit down unconcerned to allow the masses to
suffer,” he said.
Mr. Woyongo said members of the public who volunteer information
about smugglers would be rewarded.
He said security men would be attached to the filling stations
to monitor the marketing of petroleum products.
The REGSEC indicated that nobody would be allowed to sell petrol
in jerry cans or in bottles since it poses danger to life and
property.
However farmers who would want to buy fuel in large quantities
could do so through the district assemblies.
Meanwhile, most of the Fuel Stations visited by the Ghana News
Agency in Bolgatanga, on Thursday morning, were selling petrol
to motorists who were in long queues.
GNA
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