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Ghana: Govt to Automate Premix Fuel Distribution – Administrator

The government will soon automate the distribution of premix fuel across all landing beaches in the country, to eliminate middlemen who hijack the distribution of the premixed fuel.

Premix fuel is an in-country blend of fuel made for use by the fishing industry. It has similar properties to gasoline, but with an octane number of 82. It is dyed-blue to differentiate it from other fuels.

With the new drive, only fishermen with electronic cards could access the product.

The measure is to ensure that the highly subsidised product is not diverted into other uses.

The digitisation is in adherence to a directive from the Economic Management Team (EMT), led by the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, who is championing the digitisation of government business.

At a national policy dialogue on the digitisation of premix fuel supply in Accra on Tuesday, Mr Abrokwa Asare, administrator, National Premix Fuel Secretariat (NPFS), said a pilot project had been rolled out at Nungua in the Greater Accra Region.

He said fishermen and canoe owners had been registered and provided with the electronic card with which they could buy the product.

The administrator said once there was subsidy on the product, which was sold on the open market, people, not fisher folks, could purchase it for other purposes such as fueling of generators, chain saw and pumping machines.

Such diversions, he said, cost the government, hence the need for the intervention to properly target its use and cut out impersonators.