A
leading member of the People's Progressive Party (PPP), Charles Owusu
has called on Ghanaians to rise up and fight the new adjustments in the
prices of petroleum products announced by the National Petroleum
Authority (NPA) on Thursday.
According to him, Ghanaians must
express their indignation over the increments in the prices of petrol,
kerosene and gas oil and therefore put the government on its toes.
Speaking
in an interview with Peacefmonline.com, the PPP advocate noted that the
monies retrieved from the fuel price increments will not be used by
government to generate revenue for the country but rather to enrich
themselves.
In his view, President John Dramani Mahama and his government have no clue about how to develop the nation.
“2014
is going to be more challenging than even 2013…President Dramani Mahama
has failed Ghanaians. We have a breakdown of the system that the
government doesn’t know what to do…But the time has come that Ghanaians
must rise up and we have to complain. We have to let him know that
things are not going on well with us.
“Taxes are killing Ghanaians. We’re dying of taxes. We’re dying of increment." he stated.
Meanwhile,
the National Petroleum Authority has increased the price of petrol by
over 6 percent and sells at 233.00 pesewas per litre.
Kerosene also saw the highest increase of over 19 percent and Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is also gone up by 8.73 percent.
The
current ex-pump price for Gas oil is 226 pesewas a litre, the new price
will now be 242 pesewas per litre. Premix fuel, however, saw no change
in price. It will still sell at 116.00 pesewas a litre.
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