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The Public Relations Officer for the Ministry of Energy, Kwesi Obeng-Fosu, says the National Petroleum Authority\u2019s (NPA) newly introduced seal and tracking device system should not be condemned in its entirety. <\/p>\n
There have been some concerns by stakeholders over the use of the seal and tracking device system.<\/p>\n
His comment is in reaction to concerns by the Ghana National Petroleum Tanker Drivers\u2019 Union that the introduction of the seal and tracking devices on petroleum tankers have resulted in some unfair treatment by the authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThese unfair treatments come in the form of wrong accusations of tampering with seals and punishing a whole group of drivers for the alleged offense of one tanker driver. This is most unfair!\u201d the union stressed in a statement announcing its sit-down strike.<\/p>\n
Also, the tanker drivers said the tracking system is being used to punish drivers and transporters for a mandatory health and safety requirement that directs drivers to stop and rest after every four hours of driving.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery stop during transportation is viewed and characterized as diversion, to be followed by punitive sanctions. We therefore demand\u00a0that this unjust and unfair treatment cease immediately!\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n
However, Kwesi Obeng-Fosu argues that although there might be some challenges with the new system, it cannot be a general problem.<\/p>\n
He explained that the system is helping the NPA track the fuel transportation space efficiently, thus, the entire system cannot be abandoned due to a few hitches here and there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe it will be pockets of issues, it will not be a general issue because not everybody is complaining about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it happens that the vehicle is at the gantry point and then there is a signal to the tracking system that something is happening, and you\u2019re able to prove that you\u2019ve not even moved out and this thing triggered, I mean we can sit and discuss this and find an amicable solution to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it is not something that we can sit here and say in general that the tracking system has failed. It is working; it is helping NPA to track that space,\u201d he said on JoyNews\u2019 PM Express<\/strong>, Wednesday.<\/p>\n He further stated that the system does not merely check for diversions, siphoning and adulteration of fuel being transported, but also checks on the quantity and quality of fuel being dispensed across the country.<\/p>\n \u201cThat notwithstanding, even in the tanks at the various vending points the tracking system has been installed deep deep down in the tanks and it is informing the NPA of the level of fuel, quality and stuff. So it is not just adulterating and diversion and siphoning, it is also doing more than we all know,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I believe if there are issues with it, we shouldn\u2019t just condemn the whole system in its entirety, we should just look at the various issues, sit and discuss them and then iron things out and move on. So in order to at least, police that space, the regulator has all the rights to put in a system that will help them check,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Public Relations Officer for the Ministry of Energy, Kwesi Obeng-Fosu, says the National Petroleum Authority\u2019s (NPA) newly introduced seal and tracking device system should not be condemned in its entirety. There have been some concerns by stakeholders over the use of the seal and tracking device system. His comment is in reaction to concerns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1166192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[9353,2642,2635,459,2487,1493,22248],"class_list":["post-1166189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-condemned","tag-device","tag-energy","tag-ministry","tag-seal","tag-system","tag-tracking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}