{"id":399238,"date":"2018-02-07T11:38:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T11:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=399238"},"modified":"2018-02-07T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T16:22:17","slug":"copec-icu-lead-drivers-in-demo-against-killer-fuel-prices-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/copec-icu-lead-drivers-in-demo-against-killer-fuel-prices-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"COPEC, ICU lead drivers in demo against &#8216;killer&#8217; fuel prices [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of commercial drivers and consumers of petroleum products converged on the Obra Spot at the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange in Accra to protest what they describe as the persistent hikes in the prices of petroleum products.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-399251\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-15.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-15-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-399247\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-11.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-11-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-399249\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-13.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-13-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The demonstration, organized by the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) in collaboration with the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), is to force the government to reduce taxes on petroleum products.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators were adamant that the government must address their\u00a0grievances.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-399276\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1K5A8615.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1K5A8615.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1K5A8615-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-399245\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-9.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-9-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Their placards alluded to the New Patriotic Party&#8217;s promises to scrap a number of what it described as &#8216;nuisance taxes&#8217; before coming into power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been pleading with the government for about a year now and nothing has been done about it.\u00a0 so we have come here today to plead with President Nana Akufo-Addo to do something about this. he promised\u00a0that this government was going to be better than the previous one and that is what we are expecting,&#8221; a protestor from the Ashanti Region said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-399252\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-399240\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-4-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-399250\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-14.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-14-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Executive Director of COPEC, Duncan Amoah has been leading the charge in the media and he\u00a0had earlier complained that\u00a0\u201cwe are paying close to $5 in order to be able to get petrol to your tank. That clearly is not helping anything. We understand very well that some of the taxes were introduced as windfall taxes at the time that world market prices had dropped so low and Ghana needed a little more revenue in order to be able to cushion the world market prices that have gone down.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_399248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-399248\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-399248 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-12.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-12-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-399248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Director of COPEC, Duncan Amoah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-399239\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-399241\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Demo-against-fuel-prices-5-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The National Petroleum Authority [NPA], has commented on the protests as being orchestrated in bad faith and ultimately misleading to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The NPA, in a statement,\u00a0said some interventions in the sector have seen prices rise by just between 0.66 percent and 1.08 percent<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This intervention by the government has brought down the expected increase of petrol\u2019s price for the period 1st \u2013 15th February, 2018 from 5.06% to 2.16% and from 3.60% to 1.26% for diesel. Despite the expected increases above after the intervention, the actual price changes observed on the market at the moment range between 0.66% and 1.08%,&#8221; the NPA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8211;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Photos: Roberta Edem Abbeyquaye<\/p>\n<p>By: Michael Ogbodu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of commercial drivers and consumers of petroleum products converged on the Obra Spot at the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange in Accra to protest what they describe as the persistent hikes in the prices of petroleum products. 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