{"id":649540,"date":"2019-07-04T02:12:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T02:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>A scene during the donation<\/strong><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was all joy at the\nJamestown Beach in Accra over the weekend when the National Chairman of the\nPremix Fuel Committee, Nii Lante Bannerman made some donation to the fisherfolks\n"},"modified":"2019-07-04T02:12:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T02:12:51","slug":"bannerman-supports-fishermen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/04\/bannerman-supports-fishermen\/","title":{"rendered":"Bannerman Supports Fishermen &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>A scene during the donation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was all joy at the<br \/>\nJamestown Beach in Accra over the weekend when the National Chairman of the<br \/>\nPremix Fuel Committee, Nii Lante Bannerman made some donation to the fisherfolks<br \/>\nthere.<\/p>\n<p>They included 120 aluminium<br \/>\nbasins, hook and line gear for 45 canoes, 120 rubber crates, 165 fishing nets<br \/>\nand cash amount of \u20b5200 each to some selected fishermen who have<br \/>\nbeen using unapproved nets in fishing to buy the approved nets for the purpose.<\/p>\n<p>The donation which was worth<br \/>\n\u20b5220,000 was made out of<br \/>\nmonies generated from the sale of premix fuel at the beach.<\/p>\n<p>The laws allow for 53% of<br \/>\nall monies generated from the sale of premix fuel to be set aside as a<br \/>\nDevelopment Fund for each Landing Beach Committee (LBC) or fishing community.<\/p>\n<p>The Ga Mashie A, B and C<br \/>\nLanding Beach Committees therefore decided to use their quota to purchase the<br \/>\nfishing gear for equitable distribution to the fishermen. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, Mr. Bannerman purchased<br \/>\nfishing items for the fishermen in the area from his personal resources.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bannerman expressed<br \/>\nappreciation to the fisherfolk for their continuous support with a promise to<br \/>\ndo more for them in the coming months and years.<\/p>\n<p>He used the occasion to deny<br \/>\nspurious claims by elements in the opposition which suggest that the price of<br \/>\npremix fuel has been increased.<\/p>\n<p>He said that what the<br \/>\nAkufo-Addo led administration has done since taking over the governance of the<br \/>\ncountry has been to maintain the price whiles cutting down on the shortage of<br \/>\nthe product and the rot that had been associated with the lifting and<br \/>\ndistribution of premix fuel especially under the previous NDC administration.<\/p>\n<p>He advised them not to allow<br \/>\nthemselves to be deceived through cheap propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>Present at the ceremony was the Administrator of Premix Fuel Secretariat, Nana Abrokwa Asare who took time to educate the fishermen on the punitive measures associated with the hoarding and resale of Premix fuel at exorbitant prices. <\/p>\n<p><strong>By Charles Takyi-Boadu<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scene during the donation It was all joy at the Jamestown Beach in Accra over the weekend when the National Chairman of the Premix Fuel Committee, Nii Lante Bannerman made some donation to the fisherfolks there. 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