The National Treasurer of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Akane Adams, says the management of energy-sector think-tank, Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), must be invited by the national security for questioning over claims they made in connection with the alleged improper sale of contaminated fuel by the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST). According … Read more
A leading member of pressure group, OccupyGhana, Sydney Casely Hayford wants members of the governing board of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) to be hauled before Parliament over the contaminated fuel saga. According to him, they should be aware of the processes leading to the sale of contaminated fuel to some … Read more
The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) has been honoured at the 2017 Ghana Shippers Awards ceremony organized in Accra on Friday. BOST was adjudged the Liquid Bulk Operator of the Year at the ceremony held at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra. The award comes on the back of massive backlash BOST … Read more
The President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe has described the sale of the 5 million liters of contaminated fuel to Movenpiina as perpetuated fraud. According to him, the contamination and fuel and its controversial sale were deliberately orchestrated by some individuals to make money off the state. Speaking on ’s news analysis and current affairs … Read more
The Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company, Mr Alfred Obeng Boateng has denied reports suggesting he has resigned to make way for investigations into the sale of contaminated fuel to Movenpiina and ZUP OIL. According to him, he was still at post and even chaired a management meeting on Friday with … Read more
The Majority in Parliament has called for a full-scale forensic audit into the activities of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST), beginning from 2009, as they referred to the minority’s stance on the contaminated fuel sale saga as hypocritical. The Majority at a press conference today [Friday], said the controversy at BOST was … Read more
A Minority MP and a member of the Energy Committee in Parliament, Edward Bawa, believes the Energy Ministry’s attempt to unravel the controversies surrounding the contaminated fuel sale at the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST), will be held back by staff who have kicked against calls for the interdiction of their Managing Director, Alfred … Read more
Employees of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) have shown bad faith by resisting calls for the CEO’s interdiction over the contaminated fuel saga, Executive Director of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers, Duncan Amoah has said. The employees, in a petition addressed to the Minister of Energy, Chief of Staff, and the Minister of … Read more
Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) has threatened to expose the corrupt that have occurred at the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport (BOST) under the new Managing Director, Mr. Alfred Obeng Boateng. The group which is expected to hold a press conference today, June 29, 2017 on the alleged corrupt scandal to bring out the truth. … Read more
Ministry of Energy has put together an eight-member committee to probe the sale of five million litres of contaminated fuel (off-spec) by the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) to private firm Movenpiina Company Limited which in turn sold the consignment to Zup Oil for distribution to the pumps. The Committee is made … Read more
The Energy Ministry’s decision to set up an investigative committee to probe the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) company’s controversial sale of 5 million litres of contaminated fuel, has not calmed the Minority in Parliament, who are still pushing for the interdiction of BOST’s Managing Director, Alfred Obeng. The MP for Bongo, Edward Bawa … Read more
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has rejected BOST’s position that there is no off-spec oil on the market, insisting that its Executive Director’s personal experience with contaminated oil is evident enough to prove that the product is on the Ghanaian market. ACEP has been at the forefront of calls on the chief executive … Read more
The Energy Ministry will be setting up an eight-member investigative committee to look into the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) company’s controversial sale of 5 million litres of contaminated fuel. The committee has been mandated to determine the circumstances that led to the contamination of the fuel and review the transaction, among others. The committee … Read more
The Energy Ministry will be setting up an eight-member investigative committee to look into the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) company’s controversial sale of 5 million litres of contaminated fuel. The committee has been mandated to determine the circumstances that led to the contamination of the fuel and review the transaction, among others. The committee … Read more
The Energy Ministry has set up an eight-member investigative committee to look into the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) company’s controversial sale of 5 million litres of contaminated fuel. The committee has been mandated to determine the circumstances that led to the contamination of the fuel and review the transaction, among others. The committee will … Read more
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) says it is intensifying its monitoring operations at retail outlets of petroleum products to arrest the recent phenomenon of contaminated fuel. Reports of the discharge of contaminated fuel has hit hard at the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Limited (BOST), which has been accused of releasing 5 million litre of … Read more
The Ministry of Energy has set up an eight-member investigative committee to unravel circumstances that led to the release of 5 million litres of off-spec fuel by the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Limited (BOST). The committee is expected to recommend, among others, whether the Managing Director of BOST, Alfred Obeng Boateng, should be interdicted. … Read more
The acting Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) Alhassan Tampuli, has indicated that the two companies confirmed to have purchased the over 5 million litres of contaminated fuel from the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company will be sanctioned with at least a fine. The companies, Zup Oil and Movenpinaa Energy, … Read more
Chairman of the Senior Staff Union of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Ltd (BOST), Abdul Jalil A. Rahman has discredit one Mr. Albert Nii Mantey who has been holding himself up as chairman of the union. Abdul Rahman has therefore cautioned the general public, especially the media, not to engage Mr. Nii Mantey to … Read more
The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) says the controversy over the sale of contaminated fuel is serving no purpose other than to distract from the financial rot overseen by the previous BOST Managing Director, Kingsley Kwame Awuah-Darko. The rot under Kwame Awuah-Darko has left BOST with a close-to-$300 million debt, according to BOST. Following details uncovered … Read more