Unavailability of premix gas inflicting unemployment in Tema Newtown – Fishers

Unemployment among the youth of Tema Newtown is soaring due to the unavailability of premix fuel for the past six months, fishers on the Tema Canoe Seashore have revealed.

The Ghana Information Company Tema Regional Workplace throughout a tour noticed that the same old busyness seen on the canoe seashore on a traditional fishing day was lacking as quite a few younger males had been seen idling on the place and chatting the day away.

A number of canoes had been additionally docked as their homeowners couldn’t get the wanted premix gas to energy the ocean.

Nii Adjeirteh Quaye, the Vice President of the Canoe and Fishing Gear House owners Affiliation of Ghana (CaFGOAG), stating the affect of the unavailability of premix on fishing actions mentioned the youth who depended instantly and not directly on fishing had been at present unemployed.

Nii Quaye defined that at present out of the over 1,000 canoes working from the canoe seashore, solely about 300 of them have interaction in fishing actions because of the lack of ability of the state to make the premix gas accessible on the varied touchdown seashores.

He mentioned one canoe, other than instantly using between 15 and 20 folks for its fishing actions, additionally offered auxiliary jobs to the youth and girls who respectively assist in eradicating the fish and promoting them.

According to him, currently, canoe owners have to depend on mixing petrol with engine oil to power their outboard motors adding that because of the price concerned a number of canoes needed to cease operations.

He disclosed that he has to purchase 4 drums of petrol and engine oil at a price of GH¢ 3,200 per drum to allow him to proceed in enterprise a scenario he mentioned would compel him to move on the fee to the buyer.

He lamented that because of the hardship and excessive unemployment locally, among the youth have resorted to thievery and snatching of individuals’s telephones particularly on the commercial space highway within the evenings to make ends meet.

Nii Ashitey Odametey, Tema Wudum Chief Fisherman, corroborated the unemployment challenge saying fisher fishmongersers, and the youth in Tema Newtown had been dealing with severe monetary hardship attributable to provide challenges of the premix gas.

Nii Odametey known as on the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture to provide the gas to the touchdown seashores stressing that their failure to honour their guarantees to provide it was adversely affecting their survival.

Supply: Ghanaweb