Godwin Edudzi Tameklo, Chief Executive Officer of National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has disclosed that government has extended its intervention to absorb GHC2 on every liter of diesel.
The intervention which was first announced on Tuesday, August 4 was to be implemented with the August fuel pricing window and lasted for a month.
However, Mr. Tamkelo announced that after further assessment, government has taken a decision to extend the directive to cover the September pricing window.
He made the disclosure during an interview o TV3’s Daily Brief, Tuesday, September 1, 2026.
“In fact, but for the directive of the President to mitigate the impact of the pricing, we should be selling a litre for diesel for GHC20 at the pump.
“But then again, government has intervened for this window that GHC2 be taken off and that is why you have diesel for almost GHC18,” he stated.
The intervention is expected to cushion consumers as fuel prices have risen due, particularly due to an increase in the FOB prices.
The NPA CEO explained that this intervention will help reduce prices of diesel at the pumps and mitigate the impact on consumers.
“In fact, but for the directive of the President to mitigate the impact of the pricing, we should be selling a litre for diesel for GHC20 at the pump.
“But then again, government has intervened for this window that GHC2 be taken off and that is why you have diesel for almost GHC18,” he remarked.
According to Edudzi Tameklo, the decision was taken after an impact assessment by government, noting that the intervention will be applied to fuel and other petroleum product if the need arises.
“We have done some impact assessment and the impact is more on diesel and that is why we have taken this policy direction for the time being. If we do further assessment and it becomes necessary that it should run across board, that decision will be taken,” he explained.
