GH¢1 Energy Levy: How Do You Reduce Fuel By 8% And Slap 8% Levy On Same Fuel? – Dennis Miracles Blasts Gov’t
Dennis Miracles Aboagye, a former presidential staffer under the Akufo-Addo regime, has slammed the Mahama administration over their introduction of an Energy Levy.
Parliament, on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, approved an Energy Sector Levy (Amendment) Bill, 2025, introducing a GH¢1 levy on petroleum products.
The bill intends to raise additional revenues to cushion the energy sector in order to avert any impending power crisis, locally called “dumsor”.
The Finance Minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson laid the bill under a certificate of urgency.
He stated that the energy sector’s total indebtedness stands at US$3.1 billion as of March 2025 and expounded that a minimum of US$3.7 billion is required to fully clear this debt.
Also, he noted, an additional US$1.2 billion is needed to procure essential fuel for thermal power generation throughout 2025.
The Minister further argued that the impact of the new levy will be “absorbed by the gains made from the strong performance of the Ghana Cedi” which therefore means consumers would not experience an immediate price hike.
Reacting to the issue during Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo” show, Dennis Miracles wondered how a government that claimed E-Levy of 1 percent on mobile money and bank transfers was a burden on Ghanaians would now impose a fuel tax on the nation.
“How do you reduce fuel by 8 percent and then come and slap a levy of 8% on the same fuel?”, he queried.
To him, conversations about dumsor only happen whenever the National Democratic Congress is in power.
“Did you hear dumsor in the eight years of NPP government? Why is that anytime NDC comes into government, they start talking about dumsor?”, he further questioned, stressing “we (NPP) kept the power on for the people of Ghana” despite the global economic downturn.
Dennis Miracles Aboagye narrated the implications of this new levy, stating it will badly affect the living and working conditions of drivers.
“I was once helping to load taxis, so I know how taxi drivers suffer before they can buy fuel to fill their tank. That when I buy a gallon of fuel, I am to pay tax of 4.50 cedis on it; how? I mean how?”, he lamented.
Source: Ghmessenger.com
