2 years ago
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) as a component of its normal 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 provincial office of the NPA came right after incessant 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 precision of their siphon conveyance to petrol shoppers.
Toward the finish of the activity, the group discovered a portion of the stations punishable and subsequently, shut them down as they anticipate further corrective 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 necessary liter.
The group, later on, held a refinement program for oil customers in the locale. Mrs Budu Nyarko advised brokers and business drivers to satisfy their metro obligation of promptly revealing fuel stations they suspect of changing their siphons to swindle clients.
They were given hotlines, which they could call all day, every day, to stop their protests. She said, "when grumblings are made in something like 48 hours of acquisition of fuel, brief examination can be done and reality laid out before that item is sold out".
She further encouraged people in general to "purchase powers from utilitarian filling stations since these stations are regularly observed 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 buyers to stick to somewhere safe and secure conventions to forestall mishaps.
The Consumer Services division consistently visits the locales to sharpen customers of their freedoms and channels to send their protests for brief review by the Authority.
Source: NPA
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