{"id":335523,"date":"2017-07-11T09:43:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T09:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=335523"},"modified":"2017-07-11T09:43:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T09:43:52","slug":"oil-sector-mafia-covering-up-contaminated-fuel-saga-duncan-amoah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/oil-sector-mafia-covering-up-contaminated-fuel-saga-duncan-amoah\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil sector \u2018mafia\u2019 covering up contaminated fuel saga \u2013 Duncan Amoah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some powerful state actors are involved in the recent $5 million litres contaminated fuel are working vigorously to cover the rot at the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST<\/a><\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n

That is the conviction of the Executive Director of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers of\u00a0Ghana (COPEC), Duncan Amoah.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”dlsbNEP73S89KOzNDq7TXm42emeRT5bQ”]According to him, the development is being shielded by a \u2018mafia\u2019 who have the full details about the operation of illegal companies in the downstream oil sector, but are reluctant to act due to their personal interests.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong> on Tuesday, Duncan Amoah said it was saddening that the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), claimed the BOST Managing Director, Alfred Obeng, was innocent hence cleared of him any wrongdoing in the matter.<\/p>\n

According to him, there was clear evidence that BOST was irresponsible in agreeing to sell off the product.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery step of the decision, there are questions to be answered. It leaves you a bit sad that the real truth is being covered; the real substance of the matter is being shielded from public discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been several instances where NPA will arrest some of these illegal fuel dealers and by close of day, some big people in big places will call that you should release those trucks. It is a mafia.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey know all the facts on the ground, unfortunately, there are some so-called bigger men, bigger hands\u201d<\/p>\n

Duncan Amoah alleged that there were many illegal facilities in Tema dealing in the contaminated fuel, but nothing could be done about them due to the influence of some top government officers.<\/p>\n

He added that, some insiders at BOST assisted to contaminate the fuel to give business to private companies they had stakes in.<\/p>\n

“…in BOST arriving at the 5 million liters contaminated, how it got contaminated, some of us suspect strongly that there were insider hands who were looking to give business to outsiders.”<\/p>\n

Mr. Duncan Amoah\u2019s position corroborates the point made by the President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, who said on the Big Issue in June that the fuel was contaminated deliberately.<\/p>\n

Franklin Cudjoe<\/a><\/strong><\/span> said it was \u201cperpetrated fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"IMANI
IMANI Africa president, Frankling Cudjoe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cSomebody must have been engaged in this whole fuel fraud and somehow it needed to be offloaded and a company has been set up not properly incorporated and we have decided to reduce that value of whatever has been contaminated deliberately, I don\u2019t think it was a mistake. This fuel fraud is an organized crime. It is not just in Ghana\u2026Don\u2019t ever think these things are done by mistake,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

It emerged last month that the\u00a0Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0company (BOST) signed a deal to sell about 5 million litres of contaminated fuel to Movenpiina Energy and Zup Oil at a discounted price that could result in Ghana losing about GHs7 million in revenue.<\/p>\n

Energy sector analysts, the Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) said that BOST exhibited unwarranted discretion in the award of the contract to Movenpiina but the management of BOST in a rebuttal said its decision to sell off the contaminated or off-spec products to Movenpiina was the most prudent considering the potential loss of revenue.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0National Petroleum Authority<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>(NPA)\u00a0later announced that the Movenpiina and Zup Oil were not licensed\u00a0to operate in the oil and gas sector.<\/p>\n

\"Boakye
Boakye Agyarko, Energy Minister<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, constituted an 8-member investigative committee to look thoroughly into the matter amidst calls from different groups including\u00a0ACEP<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>and the minority in parliament for the Chief Executive Officer of BOST, Alfred Obeng to be interdicted.<\/p>\n

The Minister later at a press conference said based on a report by the BNI, he had cleared the BOST MD of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

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