{"id":272835,"date":"2011-01-05T16:28:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=44838"},"modified":"2011-01-05T16:28:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:28:23","slug":"fuel-price-hike-afag-gives-govt-10-day-ultimatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/05\/fuel-price-hike-afag-gives-govt-10-day-ultimatum\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Price Hike: AFAG Gives Gov’t 10 Day Ultimatum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Political pressure group, the Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), is beating the war drums as it warns government to immediately withdraw the recent 30 per cent price hikes on petroleum products announced this week within a ten day (10) time frame or risk incurring their wrath.
\nAFAG contends there is no justification whatsoever for the fuel price increases, pointing out that if allowed to stay it will just worsen the plight of the ordinary Ghanaian.
\nA press statement issued today by the group said, per this unwarranted increase businesses are likely to transfer cost to consumers in order to stay afloat.
\n\u201cThis is not a mark of a caring Government…The caring Government that we are made to believe is not only taxing the private sector to death but also diminishing the economic prospects of Ghanaians day by day,\u201d AFAG said.
\nBelow is the full statement issued by the AFAG
\nAFAG Registers Its Strongest Opposition To The Fuel Hikes As We Give Gov\u2019t Ten (10) Days Ultimatum
\nThe Alliance for Accountable Governance, not long ago, through our Economic surveys coupled with the Economic Policy and Budget Estimates for the 2011, had predicted sharper and harder times ahead. We were particularly not surprise about the increase, looking at the 300% increase in the TOR debt recovery levy and the international crude oil price increases as we posited in our 14th December 2010 Press Statement on the Budget<\/strong>.
\nWe were again not astonished in the reneging of the social contract the NDC made with Ghanaians in their Better Ghana Manifesto<\/strong> upon which Ghanaians gave them the mandate to govern.
\nSpecific in this regard is that, the NDC promised among other things \u201cto introduce measures to provide tax relief for Ghanaians through various tariffs and tax measures<\/strong>\u2019\u2019 and to \u201creduce the prices of petroleum products drastically<\/strong>\u2019\u2019.
\nAFAG\u2019s worry is the economic hardships this unwarranted increase is to cause Ghanaian consumers and businesses. We are convinced that, businesses are likely to transfer cost to consumers in order to stay afloat. This is not a mark of a caring Government.
\nAFAG was in a state of ambivalence when the President upon the Standard Bank of China courtesy call on him said that 2011 is an \u201caction year<\/strong>\u2019\u2019. The foundation upon which the President said that remains unclear, but with the increase in the prices of petroleum product as an action year greetings, we are aware of predicaments ahead.
\nAs we speak now, the President of the AGI, Nana Owusu Afari is reported as saying that; Industries will be forced to lay workers off because of this petroleum price hikes<\/strong>. This is certainly an \u2018action year<\/strong>\u2019 indeed. The caring Government that we are made to believe is not only taxing the private sector to death but also diminishing the economic prospects of Ghanaians day by day.
\nGhanaians and particularly AFAG will not accept the current petroleum hikes. If allowed to stay it will just worsen the plight of the ordinary Ghanaian.
\nWe therefore urge the President Mills led NDC government to as a matter of urgency and for the social and economic health of the nation, to withdraw the new debt recovery levy within a ten day (10) time frame or incur the wrath of AFAG and Ghanaians. AFAG would take all the necessary actions possible to correct this anomaly.
\nThank You and a Happy New Year.
\nSIGNED
\nADU RAMADAN\t\t0244570006
\nSAMUEL AWUKU\t\t0244252052
\nNANA AYEW AFRIYIE\t0244780359
\nKWABENA BOMFEH\t\t0244535472
\nARNOLD BOATENG\t\t0244294754
\nDAVIS OPOKU\t\t0244861593
\nACHEAMPONG BRIGHT \t0276374763<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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