Minority to table motion on fuel prices
Minority to table motion on fuel prices
Ho (Volta Region) 10 December 2001- The minority in parliament will table a motion on Tuesday calling on the government to reduce prices of petroleum products in line with current world prices of crude oil.
Mr. Doe Adjaho, Minority Chief Whip and M.P for Ave-Avenor announced this on Saturday at the fifth Volta Regional Bi-annual Conference of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Mr. Adjaho said between February and March, this year the government increased prices of fuel at the time the commodity was selling at 28 dollars on the world market.
He said there was no justification for fuel to continue to sell at the current prices, when the world prices of crude oil had dropped to 18 dollars a barrel. Mr. Adjaho, therefore, questioned what would happen to Ghanaians if the world price of the commodity should shoot up again.
On the reconciliation bill, Mr. Adjaho said the minority would not be a party to any
Reconciliation Bill, which is not genuine, because it is the opinion of the vast majority
of Ghanaians that the period under consideration must start from independence to date.
He cited organisations such as the Catholic Bishops Conference, National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) and the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), which were all calling for the reconciliation to start from 1957 to today.
On the restructuring of National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) by the government, he said it was created under an act of Parliament and could not be changed by cabinet decision.
He said workers of National Mobilisation Programme (NMC), who were duly employed, are being sacked and paid two months salary, only to be replaced by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporters.
Dr. Obed Asamoah, Chairman of the National Re-Organisation Committee of the party asked the delegates to work hard in order to rejuvenate and revamp the party.
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