Fishermen want increase in premix fuel allocation 

Fishermen at Apam and its surrounding communities in the Central Region have appealed to government to increase their pre-mix fuel allocation in order to help them deal with the huge deficit of the product in the area. 

The fishermen said Apam is a very large fishing community and has to share its allocation with other surrounding fishing towns, hence the 3000 gallon weekly supply is woefully inadequate. 

Secretary to the Apam Landing Beach Premix Committee, Ebenezer Crentsil made the appeal on behalf of the fishermen at Apam. 

He said currently most fishermen from Winneba, Ankaful, Kormantse, Abandze, Anomabo and Biriwa have migrated to Apam thus compounding the premix fuel shortage problem. 

Last Friday, fishermen had to struggle to get some premix fuel after a large group of their counterparts besieged the Roundabout fuel station to buy the product. 

The rush for the product followed the non-supply of premix fuel for almost three weeks. 

Mr Crentsil projected a weekly allocation of about 6000 allons to help solve the problem given the fact that fishermen are in their peak season. 

Explaining the difficulty faced by the fishermen, Opanyin Kwesi Nyimpa, said due to the shortage, a gallon of premix is being sold between four and five cedis instead of the two cedis eighty pesewas. 

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