The training which commenced already according the Chief Executive Officer of the NPA, Mr Hassan Tampuli, included; both drivers and their mates on how to handle their vehicles to reduce the risk on roads and stations.

The NPA boss who made this known at a media sensitisation in Koforidua, explained that the  drivers were classified as using high risk vehicles and therefore needed to be trained to ensure safety of all noting that cylinders must be placed appropriately in both vehicles and homes to prevent any disaster.

He disclosed that the Cylinder Recirculation Model was expected to begin in January 2019 as directed by Cabinet and so far his outfit had received over 20 applications for licensing for LPG Bottling Plants adding “it’s enough for what we need to supply Ghanaians and even part of the West African sub-region”.

 Mr Tampuli said the Gas Filling plants would be sited at off-residential areas so that “in case of any disaster, the casualties or damage would be controlled or minimal especially human deaths” and assured that the model would serve the interest of Ghanaians.

He said contrary to fears of people losing their jobs at the gas stations, the CRM was rather going to create over 6,500 jobs per their estimation far higher than the current  little over 1,000 that all the gas filling stations put together employed

The NPA boss who threw more light on the CRM said per their estimation 1,000 cylinders would be filled in an hour and so within eight working hours about 8,000 cylinders would be filled adding that “at least 30 people are estimated to be recruited at a bottling plant and so there is going to be more jobs than losses”.

He therefore called on the media to support the education on the CRM which was in the best interest of Ghanaians to ensure their safety from the threat of gas explosions saying that most countries like Togo, Benin, Senegal and many African countries in the sub-region were practising it and the safety assurance was undisputed.