{"id":1226372,"date":"2022-10-17T09:40:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T09:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/17\/fuel-prices-in-ghana-go-up-by-20-percent-sammy-gyamfi-bares-teeth-at-bawumia\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T09:40:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T09:40:54","slug":"fuel-prices-in-ghana-go-up-by-20-percent-sammy-gyamfi-bares-teeth-at-bawumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/17\/fuel-prices-in-ghana-go-up-by-20-percent-sammy-gyamfi-bares-teeth-at-bawumia\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Prices In Ghana Go Up By 20 percent; Sammy Gyamfi Bares Teeth At Bawumia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/41da6523eb0045418172b56199718677\" alt=\"Sammy Gyamfi 'drags' Dr. Bawumia, says he and his boss Nana Addo-Dankwa  Akufo-Addo have collapsed Ghana's economy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Fuel prices in Ghana have gone up over 20 percent with petrol and diesel now selling at GH\u20b513.1 and GH\u20b515.99 from Total Energies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">With a litre of diesel at GH\u20b515.99, a gallon will now be selling at around GH\u20b572.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Reacting to this, the National Communications Officer for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi says the \u201ctalkative\u2019 Vice President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has gone dead silent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">In a tweet, he says, Ghanaians are reeling in excruciating hardship with rising cost of living.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cA gallon of diesel is selling at GHS72, while the dollar is selling at GHS12.5. Cost of living keeps soaring but the braggadocious talkative and chairman of the EMT @MBawumia who was once projected as the answer to all our economic woes has gone awol. Will things ever get better?\u201d He tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Last week, the Institute for Energy Security (IES) projected prices going up at the pump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cThe sharp rise in gasoline [petrol] and gasoil [diesel] prices on the global market may drive the price of domestic gasoline and gasoil to rise higher, as against the rise in LPG [Liquefied Petroleum Gas] price.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cIn IES\u2019 estimation, consumers of gasoline and gasoil may pay between 7% and 12% more for a litre at the pump in the next two weeks, with gasoil per litre price hinging close to \u00a215\u201d, the IES said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OPolitics (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       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Reacting to this, the National Communications Officer for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1226373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8962,2032,599,85,835,982,601,838,1123],"class_list":["post-1226372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-bares","tag-bawumia","tag-fuel","tag-ghana","tag-gyamfi","tag-percent","tag-prices","tag-sammy","tag-teeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226372","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=1226372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}