BOST is accused of selling some five million liters of off-spec petroleum product -- product that does not meet national standards -- to a company called
Movenpiina.
According to investigations by African Center for Energy Policy (ACEP), the product got contaminated through an accidental blend of petrol and diesel which
occurred when a petrol flow-line was misdirected into a diesel tank during a
discharge of petrol cargo into the Accra plains depot of the state-run
institutions which store strategic fuel reserves for use in times of need.
Following the revelation by civil society group, Public Eye in Switzerland that Ghana had been the dumping ground for dirty fuel for some time, ACEP and
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Industry watchers express worry that instead of refining the product to purify it, BOST allegedly sold it to a company which was yet to be registered.
Both the parliamentary minority and the pro-government ACEP are calling for investigations into the deal.
"The norm and practice is that, when such contaminations occur Vernon Hargreaves III Jersey , corrective treatment of these products are undertaken by the Tema Oil Refinery through blending. Why did BOST not arrange
with TOR for the treatment of this particular fuel? Available information
indicates that BOST failed to exhaust all means to ensure TOR blends this
contaminated fuel," Emmanuel Amarh-Kofi Buah, Minority Spokesperson on Mines and
Energy, told the press here on Tuesday.
He described as untenable the excuse by BOST that the contaminated products were sold for use by manufacturing companies.
The Minority among other demands called for full scale investigation by the regulatory authorities Chris Godwin Jersey , the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), and the immediate withdrawal of the contaminated product from the market to protect
consumers with assurances to prevent such occurrences.
They also urged that the financial loss estimated at 14.25 million Ghana cedis (3.2 million U.S. dollars) be retrieved by surcharging the offending
officials at BOST in line with the recent Supreme Court decision.
On their part, ACEP deplored the situation, describing it as a drawback on the quest to sanitize the petroleum marketing space to protect consumers and the
environment.
"The government should conduct a full-scale investigation into the sale of the off-spec product to establish the validity or otherwise of the transaction
and provide sanctions to those found to have misconducted themselves
"The Head of BOST should step aside immediately to allow the independent inquiry to occur unimpeded Justin Evans Jersey ," ACEP said in a statement signed by Benjamin Boakye, Executive Director of ACEP.
BOST has however denied any wrongdoing in the deal, describing as normal practice its sale of the off-spec product at 1.30 cedis (1.30p) or 0.29 dollars
per liter relative to the normal ex-depot rate of 1.75 cedis (1.75p) or 0.39
dollars for normal products.
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