Ghana Card not only requirement for Cylinder recirculation model – NPA

The requirements for individuals and households to participate in the Cylinder Recirculation Model (CRM) Program, which is scheduled to be implemented in September of this year, have been clarified by Mohammed Abdul-Kudus, the NPA’s communications manager.

He noted that, in contrast to earlier beliefs, there are other national identity (ID) cards that are required for registration besides the Ghana card.

Abdul-Kudus said that although the Ghana card is one of the accepted ID cards, other kinds of identification would also be utilized during the registration process in an interview on Eyewitness News on Citi FM in Accra on Monday.

“It was only said among other things as part of the process of the implementation. Currently what pertains to the system is that the individual or household owned cylinders, you take your cylinder to the fuel station, you go and fill it and take it back. CRM is changing ownership and maintenance of cylinders to the bulk filling company. Individuals or households will not own cylinders anymore. So the bulk filling companies will have the responsibility of procuring the cylinders and putting them in the system for use.

“How do you ensure successful implementation? That is where there is going to be a registration process for individuals and individuals who will be part of the programme…And there will be a need for a national ID. It does not mean any other ID card cannot be used…That particular narrative of the Ghana card or nothing else is absolutely not true,” he stated.

The CRM is intended to improve safety protocols for handling and distributing cylinders as well as expedite the distribution of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).

Under the new approach, people or families will bring their cylinders to specific gasoline stations to be filled, then return the cylinders to the bulk filling businesses to be used again.

Filled LPG cylinders would be maintained at exchange locations for consumers to pay for the content and pick up the filled cylinders after registering with their National Identity Card, according to Perry Okudzeto, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Authority.

He stated that the NPA and its partners will lead the implementation of the CRM under the direction of the Ministry of Energy.