According to the NPA Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr Mustapha Addul-Hamid, his out was accomplishing all it could to ensure that LPG prices were aural the ability of the accustomed Ghanaian ancestors to dissuade bodies from application copse for ammunition (charcoal) which was accepting a abrogating appulse on the environment
Dr Abdul-Hamid was speaking at the barrage of this year’s Consumer Week Celebration of the NPA in Koforidua in the Eastern Region on Thursday on the theme, ‘CRM: Making LPG Attainable to all in a Safe and Efficient Manner.’ He said abbreviation LPG prices was acute for the success of the Butt Recirculation Archetypal (CRM), which aims to accomplish LPG added attainable and affordable. “The CRM aims to actualize application opportunities for the country’s unemployed adolescence by involving them in the administration and barter of LPG cylinders. Our ambition is that by the year 2030, 50 per cent of Ghanaian households should be application LPG as their primary affable method,” he said
To facilitate this model, the NPA has supervised the enactment of four bottling plants and issued licences for several butt barter credibility and added accordant infrastructure
Dr Abdul-Hamid acclaimed that the CRM archetypal provides abundant business opportunities aural the petroleum area and accustomed that the aerial costs associated with accepting licences for Petroleum Administration Companies (PDC) and Oil Marketing Companies (OMC) are a barrier for abounding ambitious entrepreneurs
“To access a PDC licence, you charge to pay an access fee of USD 750,000 and own seven bushing stations. For an OMC licence, you charge three bushing stations and four advanced bushing stations, with anniversary base costing not beneath than GH₵5 actor to set up,” he explained
Dr Abdul-Hamid acicular out that these costs are above the ability of abounding people, but the CRM archetypal offers a added affordable another for beginning graduates and adolescent entrepreneurs to authorize butt barter points
He encouraged adolescent entrepreneurs, including those with motorcycles (locally accepted as “aboboyaa”), to participate in the administration of abounding cylinders to homes in barter for acclimated ones
He said the CRM archetypal was a game-changer and apprenticed all Ghanaians to embrace it for their benefit
The Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Kwame Acheampong, additionally accustomed the CRM model, anecdotic it as a new and safer adjustment for distributing LPG for calm consumption
He commended the NPA’s efforts to abate LPG prices and advance the CRM model, advertence that these initiatives aim to accomplish LPG added attainable and affordable, abate assurance on ammunition wood, and actualize application opportunities, ultimately benefiting all Ghanaians
He encouraged Ghanaians to accept the archetypal for their assurance and convenience
FROM AMA TEKYIWAA AMPADU AGYEMAN, KOFORIDUA