{"id":1257533,"date":"2022-11-24T17:37:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T17:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/24\/gomoa-west-mp-calls-on-govt-to-address-consistent-fuel-price-hikes\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T17:37:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T17:37:49","slug":"gomoa-west-mp-calls-on-govt-to-address-consistent-fuel-price-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/24\/gomoa-west-mp-calls-on-govt-to-address-consistent-fuel-price-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gomoa West MP calls on govt to address consistent fuel price hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1651223143_660_WhatsApp-Image-2022-02-17-at-2.31.50-PM-696x392.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"fuel\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Member of Parliament (MP) for Gomoa West Constituency, Richard Gyan Mensah, has lamented the levels of living conditions for the ordinary Ghanaian and how unbearable life has been for them. <\/p>\n<p>Delivering a statement on the floor of Parliament, Mr Mensah touched on how expensive it is for ordinary Ghanaians to do simple things for themselves and secure their basic needs due to the high cost of goods and services in the Country.<\/p>\n<p>His analysis centered on how high fuel prices affect every sphere of life and how impossible it is for Ghanaians to adopt despite a lot of adjustments.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He compared fuel pricing in other Neighbouring countries with that of Ghana and how expensive it is in Ghana due to the many taxes loaded on the ex-pump prices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Find solutions to worsening living standards \u2013 TUC to govt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Living Standard Series: First class graduate returns to selling \u2018bofrot\u2019 for survival<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The MP has suggested that Ghana retools and brings back the nation\u2019s refinery (Tema Oil Refinery) to operation since it has the capacity to refine 50% of Ghana\u2019s petroleum consumption needs.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"CXT5uUjlL6A\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Underdevelopment Concerns: Six communities in Nkwanta South lack mobile telephony network (23-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CXT5uUjlL6A?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of Parliament (MP) for Gomoa West Constituency, Richard Gyan Mensah, has lamented the levels of living conditions for the ordinary Ghanaian and how unbearable life has been for them. Delivering a statement on the floor of Parliament, Mr Mensah touched on how expensive it is for ordinary Ghanaians to do simple things for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1070659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257533","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\/1257533","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=1257533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}