'Fuel smuggling draining Ghana'

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• PAKUS 9 years ago

  This business of smuggling fuel to our neighboring countries thrives on the lower fuel price regime in Ghana. The best way of solving this menace is to sell our fuel at the same price as in those francophone countries.

  This business of smuggling fuel to our neighboring countries thrives on the lower fuel price regime in Ghana. The best way of solving this menace is to sell our fuel at the same price as in those francophone countries.

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• eugene 9 years ago

  4 liters for 6 cedi in USA...www.newyorkgasprices.com---go look see how your cheated with huge tax...oil countrys all over the world are broke due to record low oil prices!

  4 liters for 6 cedi in USA...www.newyorkgasprices.com---go look see how your cheated with huge tax...oil countrys all over the world are broke due to record low oil prices!

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• Holy Judge 9 years ago

  This is good as long as the government makes profit on the fuel and not subsidizing it.
  
  Because the more people buy (irrespective of them smuggling or for personal use)the government receives it VAT and all other taxes.
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  This is good as long as the government makes profit on the fuel and not subsidizing it.
  
  Because the more people buy (irrespective of them smuggling or for personal use)the government receives it VAT and all other taxes.
  
  Now for people who do not know 4 litres of petrol cost 5€ in Germany which is over 20 GHS. Out of this 80% are taxes.
  
  It is true that fuel is cheap in America. But Germany is a very strong economy. Maybe we can learn from them and use the taxes to develop our nation.

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• KWADASO 9 years ago

  THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH FUEL EXPORTATION BUT ONCE AGAIN THE GOVERNMENT HAS FAILED TO SEE THE POTENTIAL IN THIS VERY LUCRATIVE BUSINESS.INSTEAD OF CRIMINALIZING THE TRADE WE MUST REGISTER,REGULATE AND TAX(not tax to destro ...
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  THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH FUEL EXPORTATION BUT ONCE AGAIN THE GOVERNMENT HAS FAILED TO SEE THE POTENTIAL IN THIS VERY LUCRATIVE BUSINESS.INSTEAD OF CRIMINALIZING THE TRADE WE MUST REGISTER,REGULATE AND TAX(not tax to destroy)THE FUEL EXPORTERS.THIS IS REALLY A NO BRAINER.REGISTER,REGULATE(to make sure of safe storage and transport of the fuel)AND TAX THE TRADERS JUST LIKE ANY OTHER EXPORTERS.

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• wise 9 years ago

  For Paga they don't hide even broad dat light. French cars packed in the town to smuggle in the night..

  For Paga they don't hide even broad dat light. French cars packed in the town to smuggle in the night..

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• Patriot 9 years ago

  At my last check, last week, Paga had 16+ filling stations and counting! A litre of petrol in Burkina Faso is about CFA685; a litre in Ghana is GHS3.5, on average (about CFA545). What do you expect drivers from the neighbouri ...
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  At my last check, last week, Paga had 16+ filling stations and counting! A litre of petrol in Burkina Faso is about CFA685; a litre in Ghana is GHS3.5, on average (about CFA545). What do you expect drivers from the neighbouring countries to do? All the big trucks crossing Paga to Burkina, Mali and Niger, fill up their gigantic double tanks in Paga! And yet we sit in Ghana making noise when subsidies on fuel are removed. Ghanaians should do well to travel across our immediate borders at least once in a life time (not USA or Europe) and learn how to be patriotic.

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• JAS 9 years ago

  Wise, your assessment is very right. Navrongo to Paga is about 6 kilometres(4 miles), but the fuel stations dotted from Navrongo to Paga are just too many. Who issued the license for these oil companies to site the fuel sta ...
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  Wise, your assessment is very right. Navrongo to Paga is about 6 kilometres(4 miles), but the fuel stations dotted from Navrongo to Paga are just too many. Who issued the license for these oil companies to site the fuel stations? vehicular concentration is not very high in such small towns so we are importing oil to smuggle and make illegal profit. Greedy bastards ! Ask who owns these fuel stations across the country.

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• eugene 9 years ago

  $1.60 per gal in USA (4 liters) for 6.06 cedi! www.newyorkgasprices.com --go there and see how mahama is stealing from you!

  $1.60 per gal in USA (4 liters) for 6.06 cedi! www.newyorkgasprices.com --go there and see how mahama is stealing from you!

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• Gonzalez 9 years ago

  The are 20 filling stations between Navrongo and Paga and new ones are springing up. Who give them the license to open them? Surely government. So you are all involved. Is only God can safe Ghana.

  The are 20 filling stations between Navrongo and Paga and new ones are springing up. Who give them the license to open them? Surely government. So you are all involved. Is only God can safe Ghana.

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• Papa Zion 9 years ago

  please go to Sunyani military baracks n see how military men steal fuel n sell to civillians in areas like kotokrom

  please go to Sunyani military baracks n see how military men steal fuel n sell to civillians in areas like kotokrom

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• Al Salaiman Al Saeed 9 years ago

  Paga,Bawku,Pussiga,Widana,Garu,Kulungungu,Mognori,Gentiiga,Zebila are all smuggling towns. In these towns and villages there are morethan 90 100 filling stations there and so Government must do everything to stop this busines ...
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  Paga,Bawku,Pussiga,Widana,Garu,Kulungungu,Mognori,Gentiiga,Zebila are all smuggling towns. In these towns and villages there are morethan 90 100 filling stations there and so Government must do everything to stop this business

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• DORDOYE NAMED KWAME 9 years ago

  For one to say government should stop the smuggling of fuel to the neighboring countries such as Togo, Burkina Faso and Cote Divoire. People should find out what job opportunities the government has or have created for the pe ...
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  For one to say government should stop the smuggling of fuel to the neighboring countries such as Togo, Burkina Faso and Cote Divoire. People should find out what job opportunities the government has or have created for the people in those towns; Widana, Paga and Sampa. It is the fuel stations that provide employment for the people in the communities. Every filling stations has 8 to 10 staffs and you multiple that number by the number filling stations in the towns. Besides that, the stations pays monthly operational fees to the various district they find themselves in.

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• yeboah 9 years ago

  Sampa is the district capital of Jaman north not in anywhere near Dormaa.

  Sampa is the district capital of Jaman north not in anywhere near Dormaa.

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• OKOE 9 years ago

  MR. PRESIDENT, ARE YOU AWARE OR NOT. IN ANY CASE THE PUBLIC IS DRAWING YOUR ATTENTION. IF THE COUNTRY IS NOT RECEIVING THE COST OF FUEL, NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT. WHERE ARE OUR SECURITY AND THE POLICE. ARE THEY ALL INVOLVED?

  MR. PRESIDENT, ARE YOU AWARE OR NOT. IN ANY CASE THE PUBLIC IS DRAWING YOUR ATTENTION. IF THE COUNTRY IS NOT RECEIVING THE COST OF FUEL, NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT. WHERE ARE OUR SECURITY AND THE POLICE. ARE THEY ALL INVOLVED?

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