{"id":1207389,"date":"2022-09-19T22:12:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T22:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/npa-shuts-down-oval-filling-station-for-defying-order-not-to-sell-fuel\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T22:12:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T22:12:50","slug":"npa-shuts-down-oval-filling-station-for-defying-order-not-to-sell-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/npa-shuts-down-oval-filling-station-for-defying-order-not-to-sell-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"NPA shuts down Oval filling station for defying order not to sell fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Poised to collect money owed government by some oil marketing companies (OMCs), the Upper West regional office of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) on Sunday, led a team from the Security and Intelligence and Consumer Services directorate to shut down a filling station engaging in third party activities at Gindabuor in the Savannah region.<\/p>\n<p>The term third party refers to the act of receiving petroleum products from an unknown source other than from the sponsoring Oil Marketing Company (OMC).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-881766\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/OVAL-DEFY0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The action followed a tip-off that the station had been selling petroleum products in the evenings and on weekends.<\/p>\n<p>The station, operating under the sponsorship of Oval Energy Company Ltd, was seen dispensing fuel to motorists at the time the team arrived.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-881768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/OVAL-DEFY1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>When questioned on the source of the product, the station manager could not produce any document covering the product.<\/p>\n<p>The Regional Manager, Mr. Bashiru Natogma cautioned dealers to desist from illegal activities as they will be brought to book when caught with severe sanctions meted out to them<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that the NPA published a list of OMCs that are not in good standing with the Authority in the National dailies, of which Oval Energy was part.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-881770\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/OVAL-DEFY3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poised to collect money owed government by some oil marketing companies (OMCs), the Upper West regional office of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) on Sunday, led a team from the Security and Intelligence and Consumer Services directorate to shut down a filling station engaging in third party activities at Gindabuor in the Savannah region. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207389","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=1207389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}