The Association of LPG Retailers, at a press conference on Monday, gave the government a one-week ultimatum to rescind its decision to implement the cylinder recirculation policy or face its wrath.
It argued that all indigenous LPG businesses would collapse if the government rolls out the policy.
The LPG Marketing Companies Association, which acts as an intermediary between the bulk distribution companies and the LPG retailers says any decision by the LPG operators to down their tools will adversely affect them.
Expressing fears of a possible shortage as a result of the decision, the Vice Chairman for the LPG Marketing Companies Association said: “Whatever action that the retailers take directly affects our operations. We cannot operate without retailers. We take the products from the Bulk Distribution Companies and then give it to the retailers for onward retail to the final consumer. If one retailing group has concerns and is bent on taking certain actions and they have started giving ultimatums, if their concerns are not addressed, there is no way we the marketing companies can get the product to the final consumer so we think their concerns should be addressed.”
International firms behind re-circulation program
The Ghana LPG Operators Association had earlier alleged that some giant multinational companies were behind the government’s implementation of the Cylinder Re-circulation Model of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) distribution.
The Association has consistently maintained that the policy will cripple all local LPG businesses if the government goes ahead with the implementation.
President Nana Akufo-Addo ordered the implementation of the Cylinder Re-circulation Model of LPG distribution in October 2017, following the public outcry in the wake of the massive explosion at an LPG filling station at Atomic Junction.
Speaking at a press conference in Accra, the President of the LPG Operators Association, Torgbi Adaku V, insisted that the policy was not a panacea to explosions at LPG filling stations.
In the Association’s view, better vigilance by the Fire Service and the NPA were better safety options than the Cylinder Re-circulation Policy, which they say was abandoned in a previous incarnation in the 1980s. Read Full Story
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