Senyo Hosi urged politicians to refrain from assuring people that they will lower fuel prices if they are elected to office.

He remarked, "Politicians should cease promising voters that they will lower petrol prices when they take office."

He said, "Crude oil is a worldwide product; thus, Ghanaian politicians have no control over its pricing."

Senyo Hosi, the chief executive officer of the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD), has urged politicians to refrain from making electioneering promises to people that they will lower the cost of fuel if they are elected to office.

Mr. Hosi, who denounced the practice, claimed that when politicians are faced with reality after gaining power, the circumstance makes them appear awful in the eyes of the public.

According to him, politicians are forced to take certain actions in order to appease the voters, which ultimately hurts the economy.

"Politicians should stop telling voters that they will reduce fuel prices when they come to power," he said.

Speaking on Accra-based NET FM, Senyo Hosi said instead of politicians promising voters that they would reduce fuel prices when they came to power, they should rather assure that they would abolish a specific tax component on fuel.

He recalled how ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor promised to reduce fuel prices when he was campaigning to come to power, but when he won and reality stared him in the face, he had to apologize to Ghanaians.

He argued that fuel is not like any commodity that Government of Ghana has control over, stressing that "crude oil is an international commodity and so politicians do not have control over its price in Ghana."