Dodoma — HARSH
measures taken by the Energy and Water Regulatory Authority (EWURA) have
seen a large drop of fuel adulteration cases from 78 per cent in 2007
to four per cent at present.
EWURA Acting
Director General, Mr Nzinyangwa Mchany revealed this over the weekend
during
his meeting with the media on the number of projects taken by the
authority to regulate the water and energy industry.
He attributed the
decrease to a number of measures, including the bulk procurement system
and the fuel mark initiates by the regulatory body.
"The cases of fuel
adulteration were a big issue and the government was losing a lot of
revenue apart from the damage to vehicles. At present it is almost they
do not exist," he said.
He said in 2010
EWURA started a programme of having fuel mark which controlled fuel
adulteration but also increased revenue collection through fuel dumping
system and having a level competitive business ground for all.
According to a
research by the University of Dar es Salaam on the Fuel Marking
Programme by Ewura from 2010/13, a finding was the increased government
revenue collection of 468.50bn/-.
Debating of the
fuel adulteration, EWURA's Communication and Public Relations Manager,
Mr Titus Kaguo, said the modification and relegation of the quality of
petrol or diesel damages engine parts as well as effecting the
environment and human health.
"The remaining four
per cent does not cater for the adulteration of petrol and diesel fuel
with kerosene, but rather tempering with transit fuel to shy away from
paying taxes especially at borders," he said.
"You can see the
level of the tailpipe emissions of harmful pollutants from vehicles is
not the case at present compared to the situation before the fuel
marking programme."
He said the move
has saved money of vehicle owners for repair and maintenance apart from
the government getting its real share of tax revenue from the business.
Mr Kaguo said Ewura
in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy has come up with the fuel
Bulk Procurement System and according to the UDSM survey of April 2014,
it was clear that 121.6bn/- was recovered in 2012/13 financial year due
to the system.
During the said
period there premium charges and transport cost went down by 81.9bn/-
while the demurrage cost also was less by 25.7bn/-.
Also the change of
fuel importation system from Cost, Insurance and Freight to Delivery at
Port the ocean losses were cut down by 14bn/-.
The Bulk
Procurement system apart from checking also on adulteration issues it
has given EWURA a room to have clear statistics of the volume of fuel
imported thus an open system of coming up with monthly indicative
process.
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