The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) as a component of its standard activities, has cinched down on some fuel stations that have messed with their fuel siphons in Western Region.
The activity, which is being led by the Consumer Services division at the Head office and the Western territorial office of the NPA came following regular objections about certain stations changing their siphons to swindle their clients to expand benefits.
This required astonishment visits to chosen fuel stations to actually look at the exactness of their siphon conveyance to oil buyers.
Toward the finish of the activity, the group discovered a portion of the stations blamable and thus, shut them down as they anticipate further correctional measures to be forced on them by the NPA.
The Head of Consumer Services at the NPA, Mrs Eunice Budu Nyarko, in a meeting said it was an offense for fuel administration stations to siphon fuel available to be purchased to clients underneath the expected liter.
The group, later on, held a sharpening program for oil purchasers in the locale. Mrs Budu Nyarko advised dealers and business drivers to satisfy their urban obligation of promptly announcing fuel stations they suspect of changing their siphons to swindle clients.
They were given hotlines, which they could call every minute of every day, to stop their grumblings. She said, "when grievances are made in somewhere around 48 hours of acquisition of fuel, brief examination can be done and reality laid out before that item is sold out".
She further encouraged general society to "purchase powers from practical filling stations since these stations are every now and again checked by the NPA and thus, the nature of their items can be ensured".
The group additionally sharpened understudies of the Takoradi Technical University, merchants at the Takoradi market circle, Jubilee Park and No.9 Markets and business drivers at the market circle on the most proficient method to securely utilize LPG.
The NPA group featured exercises of the power, including its order and obligations to the consuming public.
Cindy Andoh-Davies, a Manager at the Western territorial office of NPA importuned shoppers to stick to somewhere safe and secure conventions to forestall mishaps.
The Consumer Services division consistently visits the areas to sharpen purchasers of their freedoms and channels to send their grumblings for brief review by the Authority.
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