The Energy Ministry has barred individuals from lifting contaminated oil from Ghana’s Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST), Boakye Agyarko, told Parliament Thursday.
The directive is part of interim measures by the Ministry to prevent the supply of contaminated fuel onto the market.
According to Boakye Agyarko, the move has become necessary as a result of the difficulty to track the whereabouts of products lifted from BOST.
“We also noted that as soon as products were lifted out of BOST, you lost control of its track. As an interim measure, it is only BOST with its BVRs that can lift products to designated end-use consumers under the care and control of BOST. No longer are private companies allowed to lift products to unknown destinations. This became obvious during the preliminary investigation conducted by FDA itself whose preliminary results were released to the public. So we are taking the obvious which can remediate some of these deficiencies and shortfalls,” he explained while responding to questions on the floor of parliament Thursday.
This comes on the heels of the infamous BOST scandal where some 5 million liters of substandard fuel was reportedly brought onto the market by Movenpinna Energy and Zup Oil.
