A report reaching this portal indicates that some Togolese nationals have been buying fuel from Express Petroleum filling station located at Aflao in the Volta Region and reselling it in Togo.
Videos and photos received from a patriotic citizen of the area on Monday showed scores of Togolese with bicycles and motorcycles who had come to the station with yellow gallons to buy fuel.
Sources close to the area told this portal that the situation had been going on for several months.
The informant gathered courage and stopped the illegal acts but told this portal that the operator of the station called for police intervention after preventing the smugglers from continuing their illegal acts.
This portal has been informed that a similar thing is happening at other filling stations at Aflao which is close to the Ghana -Togo border.
Few years ago, the petroleum downstream regulator – National Petroleum Authority (NPA) – clamped down on these illegal acts across Ghana’s border in the East and North. However, it appears the menace is resurfacing.
This portal, therefore, calls on NPA to resume its surveillance activities to halt the situation.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com