National LPG Association to expand distribution and help mitigate climate change

Sunyani, June 20, GNA - The Ghana LPG Operators Association says it intends to expand operations to rural and underserved communities to help mitigate the effects of climate change in the country.

It said with incentive packages, the Association has targeted to reach out to at least 50 percent of the national rural population and 80 percent of peri-urban areas by 2019.

In a communiqué issued after it's third annual national congress held in Sunyani from June 14-15, the association said the expansion was aimed at halting the over-reliance of biofuel by residents in rural areas.

The communiqué was jointly signed by Torgbui Adaku V, President and Mr Johnson Owusu, Vice President of the Association and made available to the Ghana News Agency said.

It said climate change is an emerging national threat which required a collective approach to tackle.

The communiqué said in the light of the deregulation regime, operators ought to be allowed to lift LPG from different Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) as existed between OMCs and Bulk Distribution Companies.

"We proposed that margins should to be a percentage box of the cost to the dealer and not as arbitrary figure as it stands', it added.

It regretted that sponsorship by the OMCs as claimed to be, had failed to exist adding the operator or dealer currently owned the various LPG selling outlets in the country.

The communiqué called for active engagement of the Association in national discourse towards policy and decision making process.

It also tasked the Association's regional committees on safety to organise district safety coordinators to monitor and report on safety issues to the national executives for attention.

GNA

By Dennis Peprah, GNA