The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has intensified its nationwide campaign against all forms of illicit fuel trade. This campaign also forms part of Chief Executive, Mr Godwin Kudzo Tameklo’s vision to sanitize the downstream petroleum industry. This renewed campaign comes at the back of the Authority’s readiness to commence direct prosecution of defaulters using its own prosecutors after having been granted prosecutorial fiat by the Attorney General pursuant to Article 88(4) of the Constitution of Ghana.
The fiat, which is the Appointment of Public Prosecutors Instrument (E.I 378), allows the NPA to use its officers as prosecutors to prosecute from the District Courts all the way to the Supreme Court, persons involved in illicit fuel trade within the petroleum downstream in line with the Authority’s regulatory mandate.
The campaign has seen the Head of Corporate Communications, Naa Atswei Nee-Okpey, Head of Prosecution