The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has revealed that some oil marketing companies in Ghana are selling substandard fuel to consumers.
NPA noted that the low quality of the fuel accounts for the frequent breakdown of vehicles in the country.
Local media TV3 stated in a post on social media platform, X that ‘NPA admits to high counts of manganese [and iron] in some fuel consignment into the country accounting for the jerking & continuous plug changes by some petroleum consumers’.
The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC) is urging the regulator to step up their monitoring system to protect consumers from the effects of contaminated fuel.
COPEC’s recent press statement said ‘A good number of gasoline users have complained of delayed acceleration, delayed changes in the gears, jerking, and misfiring of plugs, leading to very poor performance of these engines altogether.
COPEC added that it ‘has received a good number of such complaints over the period and has largely referred same to the appropriate quarters particularly the regulator of the petroleum downstream (the NPA) while helping a couple of the others with handy solutions that seem to have averted the apparent changing of spark plugs and maintenance which are undue’. SOURCE: Kasatintin.com
