Why The Ghana Standards Authority Must Publicly Name And Shame Cheating Petrol Filling Stations It Recently Caught Red-Handed

One presumes that regulatory bodies exist in Ghana for common-good purposes - to ensure the protection of individuals and society at large: by enforcing the rules and regulations outlined in laws passed by Parliament  towards that end.

How then is it possible that when petrol filling stations in this country - involved in unlawful schemes designed to rob their customers - are caught red-handed by officials of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) cheating customers who purchase fuel from their forecourts, their identities are not revealed  to the nation by that particular regulatory body?

Of what use is the GSA to Ghanaian society if it shields ruthless fraudsters in the downstream oil sector who clearly - by their vile and dispicable conduct - should not be allowed by their parent oil marketing companies (OMC) to sell fuel to the motoring public under any circumstances: by failing to reveal their identities publicly?

It is beyond belief that the GSA did not see that its primary responsibility was to ensure the protection of consumers in this shabby affair - but rather opted (for reasons known only to itself) to hide the criminal conduct of those behind this egregious example of racketeering by individual petrol filling stations: by not identifying them publicly.

The question is: Is that not a clear case of deriliction of duty by officials of what is a regulatory body set up to protect society from precisely such cases of fraudulent trading practices?

It is important for all the employees of the GSA to note that had such  an outrage occurred in any other jurisdiction, it would have led immediately to the resignation of the overall head of the very important  public regulatory organisation they work for.

For their information, this is a major scandal - as bad as the cynical, incomprehensible and incredibly stupid lifting of the ban on the importation of vehicle-engine-destroying, health-damaging  as well as pollution-causing substandard fuel into Ghana.

Sometimes it is almost as if our system is deliberately run from the shadows solely to enrich our vampire-elites at the expense of society. Hmm, Ghana...

The GSA owes it to the motoring public to name and shame all petrol filling stations in Ghana that are caught ripping-off their customers so shamelessly - for that is the surest way of ending such unethical trading practices in the downstream oil sector completely.

After all, what self-respecting downstream oil marketing company wants its brand damaged by crooks it unwittingly enters into franchisor/franchisee partnerships with?

If the GSA had outed those crooks it caught recently, in the first place,  would their franchisor OMCs not immediately have abrogated their partnership agreements with them: and taken active steps to replace them with new and more honest franchisees who won't sully their brands in such cavalier fashion? Ebeeii.

Finally, if the GSA does not want discerning Ghanaians to come to the unfair conclusion  that it is a very corrupt organisation - apparently in the very deep pockets of rogue franchisees of downstream OMCs - it should immediately  identify all  the dishonest petrol filling stations it  recently caught cheating their customers. Enough is enough. Haaba.