Ghana cannot keep relying on other nations for fuel as an oil-producing country, the founder of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has said.
According to him, there must be a non-partisan consensus to find alternative ways of making life more comfortable for Ghanaians.
His call comes on the back of the skyrocketing prices of petroleum products in the country.
On Tuesday, 1 March 2022, fuel prices crossed the GHS8-per litre mark at some selected pumps across the country.
“Can the Ghanaian cope with the high prices of fuel in Ghana in recent times?” he asked.
He was of the view that “we cannot rely on foreign nations for our fuel when we are a fuel-producing country”.
The flagbearer in a statement suggested that “we can decide to take crude oil as our returns from oil exploration and process it at a competitive price and sell it to Ghanaians than importing the final processed oil from abroad every time.”
Due to the current condition, he concluded that Ghanaian leaders only believe in short-term results rather than long-term ones.
“In accounting, we learnt: ‘Make or buy options of scarce resource allocation between two competing objects’ and its socio-economic benefits. Why are we pretending we don’t know how to make life better for Ghanaians?” he quizzed further.
“May the Good Lord grant all of us wisdom. If you refuse to cook for your family, then you will always buy expensive food from outside for them. Exactly what is happening to us as Ghanaians because we have refused to put up an oil refinery to refine our crude oil”.