THE Northern Regional Officer of the Ghana Standards Board (GSB), Mr Francis Luguwuu, has entreated residents of the Tamale metropolis to report suspected hoarding of fuel by filling stations to the Ghana Police Service.
He noted that issues of hoarding were criminal and that it was the duty of the police to investigate such matters.
Mr Luguwuu explained to the Daily Graphic in Tamale that his outfit embarked on periodic checks of delivery pumps at the various filling stations every six months.
According to him, the checks were to ensure that the filling stations used the required measuring standards in selling the fuel to avoid cheating unsuspecting customers.
He further intimated that it was only when people failed to be vigilant that they later complained of alleged cheating by fuel attendants.
“As far as we are concerned, the issue of hoarding is the responsibility of the police but of course we can help educate the public on what to do in case they suspect hoarding” the officer observed.
Mr Luguwuu advised residents to lodge complaints at the office of the GSB in Tamale anytime they suspected under delivery of fuel, adding that “we would give them a form to fill after which my outfit would pursue the matter and make the outcome known to the complainants”.
He, however, said the GSB had never come across a situation where any filling station had broken the seals put on the delivery pumps after they had been checked.
Some managers of filling stations have however denied hoarding but some commercial drivers in the metropolis insisted that some filling stations were hoarding fuel in anticipation of price hikes. The fuel shortage that hit the metropolis a few days ago had normalised.
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