{"id":463312,"date":"2018-02-10T19:25:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T19:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/10\/fuel-prices-meet-ghanaians-halfway-stop-firefighting-approach-baako-advises-govt\/"},"modified":"2018-02-10T19:25:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T19:25:03","slug":"fuel-prices-meet-ghanaians-halfway-stop-firefighting-approach-baako-advises-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/10\/fuel-prices-meet-ghanaians-halfway-stop-firefighting-approach-baako-advises-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel prices: Meet Ghanaians halfway; stop firefighting approach &#8211; Baako advises gov&#8217;t"},"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>Myjoyonline.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\/11\/68739866.295.jpg\" alt=\"Baako Newsfile\" title=\"Baako Newsfile\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Kweku Baako<\/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\/1518290702_670_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper has said the government communicators branding demonstrators as an opposition is an &#8220;outdated&#8221; move.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr said such an approach does not help the government of the day to deal with the agitation against petroleum price hikes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Joy FM\/MultiTV\u2019s news analysis programme Newsfile, Saturday, he said when politicians play chess with fuel prices it does not help the voter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to appeal to government\u2026those out there truly feel something and are not just talking by heart\u2026I want to be pragmatic about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment has the capacity and must have the capacity to have the willingness to meet the people halfway and deal with the issues by bringing solutions on board,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, whatever area of the pricing structure government can work on to bring relief to Ghanaians, it ought to focus on that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at our Budget statement of 2016 and 2017 the country\u2019s growth rate of 3.6 was hugely attributable to a huge drop in the petroleum sector,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><b>John Jinapor<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Contributing to the discussion, former Deputy Energy Minister, John Jinapor, said with petroleum prices going above 60 cents, government is having a huge windfall of some 69% increment in revenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernments receipts are astronomically increasing. It only makes sense that a really listening government will use part of the windfall from here to cushion Ghanaians,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>He also criticised moves by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to increase fuel taxes.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr Jinapor, the Authority does not have the mandate to do so without first getting parliamentary approval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust like the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is a collecting agency on street lights and other things, it [NPA] cannot vary the taxes because it does not have that power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the NPA is mandated by the law to lodge whatever monies it collects in an account established by the Finance Minister within 15 days.<\/p>\n<p>He said when prices fluctuate the Finance Minister uses the monies accruing to cushion Ghanaians and to deal with subsidies on premix, among others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-size: 90%; background-color: #eeeaea; padding: 5px; width: 60%; margin-top: 10px;\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/96566925.jpg\" style=\"padding-right:2px;\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0;width:100%; vertical-align:middle; font-size:11px;\">For more news, go to <b>myjoyonline.com<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments:<\/strong><br \/>This article has no comments yet, be the first to comment\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 3 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Saturday, 10 February 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2018-02-10 Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Kweku Baako The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper has said the government communicators branding demonstrators as an opposition is an &#8220;outdated&#8221; move. 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