Spokesperson for Movement for Change, Andrew Appiah Danquah has stated that there was no effective communication to the citizenry about the introduction of the GHC1 fuel levy.
According to him, most Ghanaians have resentment about the levy but have no choice but to swallow the bitter pill.
He noted, that as a democratic nation, the right thing was for the government to ensure some acceptance from Ghanaians, before implementing the levy.
In a recent interview he said, “I think government did not do well in terms of the communication. I want to compare this to a parent who is giving your baby a bitter pill to cure a disease. A lot of work needed to be done to get the buy-in of the people especially when this is a democracy and not a monarch so I think government did not do well there”.
The private legal practitioner admitted that the fuel levy is important for government to deal with the energy sector debts and crisis but has urged government to put a duration to the collection of the fuel levy.
“I think in the law or Act, there should be an end game. Government should be able to tell us that we anticipate that we are going to collect this tax in like 4 years and after four years, we think we have enough money to pay the debt,” he emphasized.
