The Management of Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company in the Republic of Ghana has hinted at dismissing ten of its staff at the Kumasi Depot in the Ashanti Region should they be found to have played a role in the recent fuel adulteration involving ten trucks.
Other staff who may not necessarily be dismissed will face other forms of punishment, Managing Director of the company, Edwin Alfred Provencal explained.
The ongoing investigations into the fuel adulteration incident is covering all staff who were on duty at Pump Station One and other vantage points or sections on the day of the incident at the depot.
Edwin Provencal, who was addressing petroleum transporters in Accra, said management was patiently waiting for the outcome of the investigations by the security agencies to act on their report.
He told the transport owners that fuel tampering in transit by tanker drivers in the industry is causing the nation several millions of US Dollars.
He urgently appealed to the fuel truck owners to immediately take measures to put a stop to the practice or lose their business contracts with BOST.
The Managing Director further disclosed that the National Security is to start monitoring the movement of petroleum products from the company’s depots to stop fuel tampering.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com