OMC dismiss claims of members selling adulterated fuel
The Association of Oil Marketing Companies has dismissed claims that some of it’s members have been selling adulterated fuel.
Rather, the Association is blaming third parties of those franchising for OMC’s of selling mixed fuel to consumers.
Chief Executive Officer of the Association, Kwaku Agyemang Duah, has however revealed that, OMC’s in finding solutions to the situation, has adopted a technology to check pump stations selling tainted fuels.
He added that in 2019, when this started, the Association came out to issue a press statement about the sale of illegal fuel in the country, and urged the gate keeper’s as well as national security to help in curbing the situation.
“If you remember, we were the first people to have come out and started crying about illegal fuel in the country, even in 2019 we issued a press statement on that one, and we are asking the gate keeper’s, national security, regulators to make sure that these ones do not enter”.
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“For us as OMC’s, this is the little we can do, so now what is happening is that we are resorting to technology, we have what we call the automatic time guasing”, he said.
He noted again that this technology will help them get out the third parties involved in selling the illegal fuel to consumers, adding, that the third parties do not pay taxes and so government will in turn loose revenue.
“The automatic time guasing will help us to be able to get out the third party people. It is the third party which is cunning, when the third party comes in, they sell the product to unsuspecting consumers, they don’t pay taxes on it and so government loses revenue, the OMC’s also lose branding, then it becomes a problem”, he added.
