{"id":463215,"date":"2018-02-10T09:41:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T09:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/10\/were-unhappy-about-presidents-silence-on-fuel-hikes-copec\/"},"modified":"2018-02-10T09:41:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T09:41:55","slug":"were-unhappy-about-presidents-silence-on-fuel-hikes-copec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/10\/were-unhappy-about-presidents-silence-on-fuel-hikes-copec\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re unhappy about President\u2019s silence on fuel hikes &#8211; COPEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Saturday, 10 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-10<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/18764904.295.jpg\" alt=\"Hot Duncan Amoah\" title=\"Hot Duncan Amoah\" width=\"295\" height=\"162\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Duncan Amoah, Executive Secretary of COPEC-GHANA<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518255715_186_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers-Ghana (COPEC-GHANA), has expressed disappointment in President Akufo-Addo for failing to address the incessant fuel price hikes in the country when he delivered the State of the Nation Address(SONA) on the floor of Parliament on Thursday<\/p>\n<p>COPEC maintained that it will continue to press for reduction in the cost petrol and diesel despite President\u2019s inability to address the fuel issue.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the Executive Secretary of COPEC-GHANA Mr Duncan Amoah and copied to Oman FM, threatened to roll out series of actions in the next two weeks if the trend continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have followed with keen interests, today\u2019s State of the Nation Address by the president to see if there is any solutions in place as far as the rising costs of fuel in the country is concerned, but unfortunately not a word or a line on prices, indicating no solution yet in sight as far as the increases are concerned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish to state for the avoidance of doubt our earlier stance, we demand for a downward review of the harsh and crippling taxes especially the Special Petroleum Tax (SPT), leading to these incessant increases and also caution further that, any more attempts at increases with the usual untenable excuses of grammar will be fiercely met with further protests and demonstrations using the mass approach this time,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>It added that: \u201cWe will want to believe the appropriate authorities will stop the needless attempts to rationalise and justify the rather high fuel prices currently at the various pumps and rather work to reduce these prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to keep an eye on the situation and will roll out our next line of action in the next two weeks IF the spate of increases continues,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 26 updated by: 26 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() 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President Akufo-Addo for failing to address the incessant fuel price hikes in the country when he delivered the State of the Nation Address(SONA) on the floor of Parliament on 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