The Vice President of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Marketers Association, Mr. Gabriel Kumi has expressed concerns in the implementation of the Cylinder Re-Circulation Model (CRM) in September this year
Mr Kumi says that September comes too early as he believes there has to more public education before a complete roll-out of the policy.
“NPA has set next month for the implementation, and so we have less than a month and the public confusion indicates that consumers are not ready and so there is a need to educate the public on the model so that we don’t confuse the public in the roll-out of the model,” Mr. Kumi said on Eyewitness News on Citi FM.
He futher stated that there was so much misinformation surrounding the implementation of the project which needed to be addressed and urged the NPA to proceed cautiously.
“Our initial discussion was that we should buy back all cylinders in the system because there are a lot of them out there that are obsolete and need to be changed, and it will be difficult to tell them to simply discard them and get new ones in anticipation of the model’s roll-out,” he said.
He continued: “Not until last week that the NPA had a press conference, I did not know the Ghana Card was going to be used in the policy’s implementation. There is little education on this policy, and so we have to take our time to ensure the people understand the policy before it is implemented, and we can even give ourselves up until January 2024 to roll it out.”
The CRM is to ensure that at least 50 per cent of Ghanaians have access to safe, clean and environmental friendly LPG by 2030.