{"id":378183,"date":"2017-11-28T07:05:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T07:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=378183"},"modified":"2017-11-28T07:13:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T07:13:27","slug":"scrap-badly-executed-premix-policy-wereko-brobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/scrap-badly-executed-premix-policy-wereko-brobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrap &#8216;badly executed&#8217; premix policy &#8211; Wereko-Brobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby, who once served as policy adviser when the\u00a0sale of premix fuel for fisher-folk was instituted, has said the whole policy as currently exists must be scrapped.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the policy introduced in 1990 was intended to help fisher-folk, Mr. Wereko-Brobby said\u00a0&#8220;the intent was badly executed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;88dErgbOmZTWlMtU2mujeyfIQ96Bxh1r&#8221;]He was speaking on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong> in response to the <strong>Citi News<\/strong> report indicating that over 200 premix fuel consignments loaded from the Tema Oil Refinery were not delivered to the intended destinations.<\/p>\n<p>In all instances, although the product was documented to be bound for outside the Greater Accra Region, they ended up in Tema, according to information obtained by the NPA\u2019s BRV Tracking System.<\/p>\n<p>This has been viewed as\u00a0extremely\u00a0scandalous considering that in 2016 for example, $45 million was signed in subsidies to help fisher-folk in Ghana, whose livelihood has been <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/27\/left-die-fishing-industry-life-support-audio\/\"><strong>in\u00a0sharp decline<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a National Premix Committee (NPC) since 2009, to oversee the administration and distribution of premix fuel, a heavily subsidized petroleum product.<\/p>\n<p>In view of all this, Dr. Wereko-Brobby believes the policy, which was originally intended to ensure the timely availability of the products at an affordable price, has to be\u00a0restructured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How much of the $45 million [in 2016] actually went to fishermen? It went to unscrupulous middlemen who sit on committees and misuse the funds of Ghana because they sell it off as fuels for ordinary engines. So let&#8217;s go back to square one and do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solutions for government<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Diagnosing the problems with the policy,\u00a0Mr. Wereko-Brobby said the fact that premix fuel had multiple uses presented its own problems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem we have is that, each time you have multiple uses for a product, the ones that give more profit is what people will go for. From Day one that premix was introduced, because it has alternative uses in very old engines, people could literally siphon it away and give it to the drivers\u00a0who use those engines instead of giving it to the fishermen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fishermen currently use a type of engine that requires a mixture of gas oil and the leaded fuel, hence the need for the mixing.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wereko-Brobby recalled that, at the time the\u00a0policy was being formed, he advised that\u00a0fisher-folk\u00a0be\u00a0given coupons to buy the additives\u00a0themselves to mix but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fishermen should have been given coupons to buy the additives and mix it rather than creating a situation where you are supposedly making the premix [for them]\u2026 so you don\u2019t create a market for alternative uses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that, there are now engines that did not require premix fuel and could run on just the fuel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can you imagine if the government spent the $45 million buying the most up-to-date engine and giving it to the fishermen? That would be a one-time expenditure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pre-mix fuel diversion: We can\u2019t punish perpetrators \u2013 Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the National Pre-mix Fuel committee, Nii Lantey Bannerman, has said his outfit does not have the<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/27\/pre-mix-fuel-diversion-cant-punish-perpetrators-committee\/\"> power to sanction <\/a><\/strong><\/span>persons who divert subsidized premix fuel meant for fishermen to other areas to be sold to industries.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, only the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) can sanction or withdraw the licenses of the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) who perpetuate such acts.<\/p>\n<p>The NPA is yet to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby, who once served as policy adviser when the\u00a0sale of premix fuel for fisher-folk was instituted, has said the whole policy as currently exists must be scrapped. 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