Minority to hit streets against 17.5% petroleum tax The coming week is likely to witness a series of mass actions by Minority Members of Parliament (MPs) to press home their demand for a decrease in the prices of petroleum prices. This was after government introduced a 17.5% tax on all petroleum products on Wednesday, November 19, 2014. Even though the members of the Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) side of Parliament decided to boycott the bill that saw the introduction of the new petroleum taxes with a walkout, their colleague Majority MPs in the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) used their numbers to pass the bill into law yesterday. But Deputy Minority leader, Dominic Nitiwul, yesterday told Daily Guide: “We are not going to sleep; from next week, you will begin to see a series of actions that the Minority will engage in.” “Our intention is to get ourselves into the streets and woo the people of Ghana into supporting what we looking at because we believe that fuel should be selling below GH¢10… It doesn’t matter what it is, fuel should be selling around that price,” he noted. That, he said, was because “we think that the government is cheating our people” and that “if it means demonstration, we will. We are planning a series of actions that will ensure that the government will listen to the people on the ground.” - See more at: myjoyonline/news/2014/November-22nd/minority-to-hit-the-street-against-175-petroleum-tax.php#sthash.FQOeq3jk.dpuf
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 15:58:02 +0000
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