NPA is only a referee between the consumer and government<\/b><\/p>\n NPA is just an implementer of the government\u2019s final decision<\/p>\n Transport operators want levies on fuel scrapped<\/p>\n Communications Manager of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Mohammed Abdul-Kudus, has stated that the regulatory body does not have the mandate to review levies on petroleum products.<\/p>\n He mentioned that, when it comes to the issuance and scrapping of fuel levies in the country, the NPA has no hand in tampering with the number of levies charged on a litre of fuel.<\/p>\n According to him, the authority simply acts as a referee between the government and the consumer and thus has no power of determination over the levies charged by the government.<\/p>\n Mr. Abdul-Kudus, however, said the NPA only tries as much as possible to offer advice to the government when the issue of any review comes up. <\/p>\n It also advises the government on ways to ensure that increments do not affect consumers negatively.<\/p>\n Speaking on JoyNews\u2019 PM Express on Wednesday, he stated that \u201cthey (fuel price levies) are engineered by government and you have Parliament as the vehicle for this position. And so, some of them like the Special Petroleum Tax if there\u2019s going to be review, if there\u2019s going to be a scrapping, there\u2019s going to be anything done about it, then certainly Parliament will be called to work on that.<\/p>\n \u201cWe only come in when the decision is taken, and we\u2019re supposed to review the pricing formula. That is when we come in. But we don\u2019t actually make a determination on its review. We could have discussions with government, advise on probably the effecting degree or percentage of what should be more appropriate that will probably cushion the consumer\u201d.<\/p>\n He added the body only comes in as a final implementor of the government\u2019s final decision.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are the final implementers of the final decision that has been taken or might be taken and as and when that will be taken, and we\u2019re supposed to do something about some of the levies or taxes, if we\u2019re arguably called upon, we\u2019d do what is expected of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" National Petroleum Authority NPA is only a referee between the consumer and government NPA is just an implementer of the government\u2019s final decision Transport operators want levies on fuel scrapped Communications Manager of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Mohammed Abdul-Kudus, has stated that the regulatory body does not have the mandate to review levies on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737542","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=737542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"National](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/81658044.295.jpg\" "\\"National")
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