{"id":465380,"date":"2018-02-18T15:11:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T15:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/18\/kwesi-pratt-lambasts-government-over-failure-to-scrap-special-petroleum-tax\/"},"modified":"2018-02-18T15:11:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T15:11:54","slug":"kwesi-pratt-lambasts-government-over-failure-to-scrap-special-petroleum-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/18\/kwesi-pratt-lambasts-government-over-failure-to-scrap-special-petroleum-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwesi Pratt lambasts government over failure to scrap Special Petroleum Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Sunday, 18 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>peacefmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-18<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/57665032.295.jpg\" alt=\"PRATT7\" title=\"PRATT7\" width=\"295\" height=\"261\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kwesi Pratt Jnr, Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper<\/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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518966714_168_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Seasoned journalist Kwesi Pratt has lambasted the government and the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) for failing to scrap the Special Petroleum Tax as earlier promised Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) promised Ghanaians there would be a drastic reduction of fuel prices when given the nod to govern the nation.<\/p>\n<p>He therefore wondered why the government is now suggesting a review in the prices.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Pratt, speaking on Peace FM&#8217;s &#8216;Kokrokoo&#8217;, also believed the new adjustments by the government, which is to see a reduction in the Special Petroleum Tax from 15 percent to 13 percent, as &#8220;voodoo arithmetic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the calculations by the NPA do not support conclusions for the petroleum sector with regard to the prices on petroleum products.<\/p>\n<p>Kwesi Pratt asked the government to explain reasons behind their inability to deliver on their promise to Ghanaians, particularly fuel consumers.<\/p>\n<p>He believed it is pure deception on the part of government, adding that even the review is insignificant because the reduction on petrol is not even up to 2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s dangerous . . . It\u2019s only voodoo arithmetic that can give you such conclusion. If it\u2019s not juju you\u2019re using to do the arithmetic, you can\u2019t come to the conclusions &#8230; If this is how they\u2019re doing calculations at the NPA, then we\u2019re in trouble because simple methods of additions, subtraction and multiplication don\u2019t even add up\u201d, he stated.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 32 updated by: 32 --><\/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 Sunday, 18 February 2018 Source: peacefmonline.com 2018-02-18 Kwesi Pratt Jnr, Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper Seasoned journalist Kwesi Pratt has lambasted the government and the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) for failing to scrap the Special Petroleum Tax as earlier promised Ghanaians. According to him, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) promised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":416741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}