{"id":117325,"date":"2015-05-19T07:24:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T07:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=117325"},"modified":"2015-05-19T07:24:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T07:24:04","slug":"sack-npa-boss-over-fuel-price-increment-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/05\/sack-npa-boss-over-fuel-price-increment-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Sack NPA Boss over fuel price increment \u2013 Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure group, Chamber of Petroleum Consumers is asking President John Mahama to sack the Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Moses Asaga for his failure to protect Ghanaians from the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/05\/17\/fuel-prices-to-go-up-by-9\/#sthash.bBoKJKZp.GDFACNgS.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">recent fuel hikes<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;bLplHyyZTVfwNbStRsAhyGy6ln2fLEdM&#8221;]The NPA announced the increase in fuel prices over the weekend with the claim that they owe banks that assist them in their operations.<\/p>\n<p>They also cited\u00a0the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/05\/18\/npa-justifies-fuel-price-increases\/\" target=\"_blank\">depreciation of the cedi against the dollar<\/a><\/strong><\/span> as one of the reasons and the surge in prices of petroleum products in the international market.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong> on Monday, General Secretary of the Chamber, Duncan Amoah said the \u00a0increase in petroleum products will worsen the plight of Ghanaians who are already struggling due to the effects of economic hardship and erratic power supply.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that\u00a0\u201cwhy we insist that if the President can sack Mr Asaga he should sack is this simple, there is a common phenomenon called hedging in world market pricing. These are critical issues we think the NPA is either not dealing with or not interested and for which the lazy approach of passing on to the consumer is being adopted and for which we think for that job a Mokala person can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, pressure group,\u00a0Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) has said they will stage a series of demonstrations exercise to force government <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/05\/18\/afag-to-hit-streets-over-fuel-price-hikes\/#sthash.0KVGgZrp.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">to reduce fuel prices<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, the 9% increment in petroleum products as \u201cunrealistic\u201d and \u201cpolitically incorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure group, Chamber of Petroleum Consumers is asking President John Mahama to sack the Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Moses Asaga for his failure to protect Ghanaians from the recent fuel hikes. 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