Gas Stations Under Siege

Ghana may soon face acute gas shortage following the invasion of most LPG filing stations in the Brong Ahafo Region and some parts of the Western region by Ivoirians as a result of escalating post-election violence in the Ivory Coast which has led to the collapse of many companies including gas filing stations.

CITY & BUSINESS GUIDE, during a visit to one of the top gas filing stations in Sunyani yesterday, observed that a group of persons had travelled to Ghana on board a cargo car with registration number 969 CX 05 to buy gas for domestic use in that country.

The leader of the group, one Baping told CITY & BUSINESS GUIDE that the political unrest in Ghana’s western neighbour has led to the closure of most gas filing companies in that country.

He said residents along the border put their resources together to hire the cargo car to travel to Ghana to fill 300 empty cylinders since they have run out of the essential commodity for the past six months. The situation, he noted, was affecting most Ivoirians as cooking has become virtually impossible thereby leading to famine.

Most of them do not have money to buy food on a daily basis. Checks by the paper indicate that most Ivorians travel to Ghana to buy gas at towns close to the Ivorian border such as Sampa, Nkrankwanta and Dormaa Ahenkro, all in the Brong Ahafo Region and Sefwi-Debeso and Osei Kojokrom in the Western region.