The Liquefied
Petroleum Gas (LPG) Marketers Association has kicked against plans by the
National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to implement the Cylinder Re-circulation
Model in September.
The Association
argues that the September date is too early for the policy’s implementation and
could lead to misunderstandings.
The association
thus emphasized the need for intensified public education before a complete
roll-out.
Gabriel Kumi,
the Vice President of the LPG Marketers Association, informed Selorm Adonoo
on Eyewitness News on Citi FM that the confusion
surrounding the model indicates that the NPA should proceed cautiously.
“NPA has set
next month for the implementation, and so we have less than a month and the
public confusion indicates that consumers are not ready and so there is a need
to educate the public on the model so that we don’t confuse the public in the
roll-out of the model.”
“The current
system is so entrenched that if you want to introduce a new system, you just
don’t throw the old one out and suddenly introduce the new one, we have to do
that slowly. Our initial discussion was that we should buy back all cylinders
in the system because there are a lot of them out there that are obsolete and
need to be changed, and it will be difficult to tell them to simply discard
them and get new ones in anticipation of the model’s roll-out.”
“Not until last
week that the NPA had a press conference, I did not know the Ghana Card was
going to be used in the policy’s implementation. There is little education on
this policy, and so we have to take our time to ensure the people understand
the policy before it is implemented, and we can even give ourselves up until
January 2024 to roll it out,” Mr. Kumi further lamented.
SOURCE: CITINEWSROOM
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