The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) as a component of its standard activities has braced down on some fuel stations in the Western Region that have messed with their fuel siphons.
The activity, which is being led by the Consumer Services Department at the Head Office and the Western provincial office of the NPA came directly following regular grievances about certain stations changing their siphons to swindle their clients to boost benefits.
This required the unexpected visits to chosen fuel stations to actually take a look at the exactness of their siphon conveyance to oil shoppers.
Toward the finish of the activity, the group discovered a portion of the stations blamable and thus, shut them down as they anticipate further reformatory 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 is 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 sensitisation program for oil buyers in the locale. Mrs Budu Nyarko advised merchants and business drivers to satisfy their urban obligation of quickly 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 grumblings. She said, "when protests are made in no less than 48 hours of the acquisition of fuel, brief examination can be completed and reality laid out before that item is sold out".
She further encouraged people in general to "purchase energizes from practical filling stations since these stations are every now and again observed by the NPA and subsequently, 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 utilize LPG securely.
The NPA group featured the exercises of the authority including its order and obligations to the consuming public.
Lady Cindy Andoh-Davies, a Manager at the Western territorial office of NPA importuned purchasers to stick to somewhere safe and secure conventions to forestall mishaps.
The Consumer Services Department routinely visits the locales to sharpen buyers about their privileges and channels to send their protests for brief review by the Authority.
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