The Executive Director of Africa Centre for Energy Policy, (ACEP), Ben Boakye wants Oil Marketing Companies, engaging in cartelization and corruption under the fuel price liberalization regime punished.
He is calling on the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to build its capacity to enable it detect possible connivance among some OMCs to shortchange consumers.
Speaking on Plan B FM ‘Ebaanosen’ with Bohyeba Afriyie, he said the country needs to turn its attention to some activities of the OMCs, which has become inimical to the petroleum sector.
“We pay taxes to government not OMCs. Cartelization is happening, except that because it is criminal, it is done secretly by secret cooperation. Until we go into their books and assess their data, you cannot tell but you can read implicitly that there is some arrangement. We need to fish out those engaging in this illegality that is contributing to revenue losses and punish them accordingly,” he remarked during the interview.
“We are not doing enough to clamp down on these criminal activities, and that is why we are saying that the NPA should device a means of monitoring and detecting such crimes because it is in the law. But if it is in the law and you don’t find them, how do you punish them,” he questioned.
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