Government To Soon Ease Border Restrictions, Address Fuel Price Hikes – Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah

Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, the Minister of Information, has stated that the government is engaged in discussions aimed at alleviating COVID-19-induced land border limitations as well as measures to alleviate escalating fuel price spikes.

According to him, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been meeting with important stakeholders over the past two days in an attempt to alleviate the situation, which is affecting livelihood and enterprises.

“Yesterday and today Akufo-Addo has been involved in discussions in preparation to announce lifting of limitations at our borders and confronting growing fuel prices,” the Information Minister wrote in a tweet on Thursday, March 17, 2022.

Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic in Ghana in 2010, President Akufo-Addo has announced the closing of land borders to prevent the virus from spreading.

Despite the fact that the land border restriction has been in effect for almost two years, it has had an impact on people’s movements and business activity.

Meanwhile, in the second pricing window of March 2022, users of petroleum products in the country are already suffering the effects of recent fuel price hikes.

Some oil marketing companies in Ghana have begun to change their pricing, with gasoline now costing GH9.70 and diesel costing GH10.80.

The cedi’s depreciation against major trading currencies, as well as current tensions between Russia and Ukraine, have been blamed for the phenomena.