The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) as a feature of its normal activities has cinched 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 local office of the NPA came directly following successive grumblings about certain stations changing their siphons to swindle their clients to augment benefits.
This required the unexpected visits to chosen fuel stations to really look at the precision of their siphon conveyance to oil customers.
Toward the finish of the activity, the group discovered a portion of the stations chargeable 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 necessary liter.
The group, later on, held a sensitisation program for oil shoppers in the locale. Mrs Budu Nyarko advised brokers and business drivers to satisfy their municipal obligation of quickly revealing fuel stations they suspect of changing their siphons to swindle clients.
They were given hotlines which they could call day in and day out to stop their grumblings. She said, "when grumblings are made in something like 48 hours of the 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 energizes from utilitarian filling stations since these stations are every now and again observed by the NPA and consequently, the nature of their items can be ensured".
The group likewise 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 local office of NPA implored buyers to stick to somewhere safe conventions to forestall mishaps.
The Consumer Services Department consistently visits the locales to sharpen purchasers about their freedoms and channels to send their protests for brief review by the Authority.
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