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Bannerman Donates To Fishermen

Bannerman Donates To Fishermen
It was all joy at the Jamestown Beach in Accra over the weekend when the National Chairman of the Premix Fuel Committee, Nii Lante Bannerman decided to make some donation to fisherfolks there.

The items included fishing nets, hooks, lines, aluminium basins, rubber crates and cash donation to fishermen and fish mongers at the beach.

The donation which was worth ₵220,000 was made out of monies generated from the sale of premix fuel at the beach.

The laws of Ghana allow for 53% of all monies generated from the sale if premix fuel to be set aside as a Development Fund for each Landing Beach Committee (LBC) or fishing community.

The Ga Mashie A, B and C Landing Beach Committees (LBC) therefore decided to use theirs to purchase the aforementioned fishing gear for equitable distribution to the fishers.

They included 120 aluminium basins, hook and line gear for 45 canoes, 120 rubber crates, 165 fishing nets and cash amount of ₵200 each to some selected fishermen who have been using unapproved nets in fishing to buy the approved nets for the purpose.

The fisherfolk could not hide their joy for the love shown them by Bannerman, especially coming on the heels of a similar donation to the fishermen a month ago in which he used ₵5,000 of his personal resources to purchase some fishing items for fishermen there.

They were also overwhelmed by the gesture particularly when the young man who was the ruling party's Parliamentary Candidate in the area (Odododiodioo constituency) on the ticket of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is mourning his late mother who was only laid to rest last Friday.

They, therefore, thanked him for his continuous benevolence and prayed for the good Lord to grant his heart desires.
But an obviously excited Bannerman also expressed appreciation to the fisherfolk for their continuous support with a promise to do more for them in the coming months and years.

All he asked was for their prayers and support.

He used the occasion to deny spurious claims by elements in the opposition which suggest that the price of premix fuel has been increased.

Instead, he noted that what the Akufo-Addo led NPP administration has done since taking over the governance of the country has been to maintain the price whiles cutting down on the shortage of the product and the rot that had been associated with the lifting and distribution of premix fuel especially under the previous Mills-Mahama led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration.

This, the fishermen confirmed and asked that it be treated with the utmost contempt it deserves.

Bannerman could not but advised the fisherfolk not to allow themselves to be swayed by cheap propaganda which would only end up breaking their united front.

Present at the ceremony was the Administrator of Premix Fuel Secretariat, Nana Abrokwa Asare who took time to educate the fishermen on the punitive measures associated with the hoarding and resale of Premix fuel at exorbitant prices.

He congratulated the Ga Mashie landing Beaches for a show of good stewardship and judicious utilization of their community development Funds.
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