The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) has called on the government to extend its fuel price relief measures to petrol users, proposing a reduction of between 20 and 50 pesewas in the petrol levy. COPEC Executive Secretary Duncan Amoah said that while the government’s intervention on diesel had offered some relief, similar measures should be introduced to support motorists who use petrol.
Speaking on Eyewitness News on Thursday, October 1, 2026, Mr Amoah said reducing the levy on petrol would ensure that the benefits of the government’s intervention were shared across different categories of consumers. “I was expecting that, of course, if we are saying the Finance Ministry could absolve the Ghc1 levy on diesel, we could have equally reduced a bit on petrol, the same D-levy, so that the chicken and egg both could at least get some benefit at the end of the day,” he said.
He noted that while commercial transport operators and owners of larger vehicles tend to depend more heavily on diesel, many ordinary motorists use petrol-powered vehicles. “For the ordinary, I mean, accountant, lawyer, nurse, doctor, journalist, you know, everyday person driving a small car to work and back, normally they are also on petrol,” Mr Amoah said. He warned that rising petrol prices could place additional financial pressure on private motorists who had not directly benefited from the diesel levy intervention.
According to him, providing some relief on petrol would help distribute the impact of rising international fuel prices more evenly among consumers. “As prices of petrol also continue to climb, they will expect that maybe a few pesewas relief is given to them,” he said.
Mr Amoah further argued that extending the relief to petrol users would promote fairness in any future tax measures, ensuring that the burden was not concentrated on consumers of a particular type of fuel. “If tomorrow there is a need to even come back to ask for more taxes or de-taxes, it is not only going to be diesel consumers that you probably would tax or ask to bear the incident,” he said.
