ASEPA demands clarity on alleged sale of TOR to Sentuo

The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has called on the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) and the Sentuo Oil Refinery to make public the specifics of their relationship.

This request comes in the wake of the alleged sale of TOR to Sentuo Oil Refinery.

On Monday, April 8, ASEPA’s Executive Director, Mensah Thompson, issued a statement, revealing that on April 4, ASEPA received a whistle-blower alert from a TOR insider about a meeting between TOR management and the Chinese-owned private oil refinery, Sentuo Oil Refinery Ltd.

The meeting was allegedly to discuss the sale of the national refinery to Sentuo.

“The meeting we were informed lasted from 10 am to 1 pm at the premises of the TOR after which there was a large celebration at Sentuo Oil Refinery Ltd to celebrate the outcome of the supposed meeting

The said meeting till now has not been reported in the media neither has Tema Oil Refinery issued an official statement on the matter,” it added.

In response to this, ASEPA announced that it is invoking the Right to Information Law to compel both TOR and Sentuo Oil Refinery to disclose the nature of their relationship and whether TOR has been outrightly sold to Sentuo, whether Sentuo has assumed management of TOR, or if certain aspects of TOR’s operations have been transferred to Sentuo.