The Association of Oil Marketing Companies says it is ready to collaborate with the Ghana Standards Authority to clamp down and sanction members who would be found to be using automated fuel dispensing machines to shortchange consumers.
A report by the Graphic Business suggested that about 30 percent of fuel stations in the country are using digitally controlled dispensers that are easy to adjust to alter the quantity of fuel dispensed to buyers without the public knowing.
The Association says although the digitize system is good, using it to cheat the public must not be tolerated.
“We will not do anything without the approval of the GSA in terms of measurement, we will never do anything without that. For a fact, we are working with human beings and anything can go wrong and also the equipment being bad, so obviously we need to be collaborative and work with the GSA on that score,” Kwaku Agyemang Duah, Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Oil Marketing Companies, told Citi Business News in an interview.
Earlier, the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers asked the Ghana Standards Authority to clamp down on the said automated machines and also work to stop suppliers from importing such machines into the country.
“What we will immediately do with the GSA is to write to them formally, to clamp down on any such pump that has the propensity to be adjusted or whatever they use in cheating, so that the GSA would not only have to wait for its own investigations to uncover this,” stated Duncan Amoah, Executive Secretary of COPEC.