Marketing of “Let's go” : Wilfried Léandre Houngbédji sets out the conditions

During his meeting with media men, Friday 13 October, government spokesman, Wilfried Léandre Houngbédji addressed the issue of formalizing the “kpayo” contraband gasoline sector. Read instead!!!  

The government encourages stakeholders to come together to receive and manage mini stations. Sellers fear for profitability profitable to each of them.

Pooling resources can create greater efficiency in the service of the cause. In a street of 200m or 500m, we have several actors. Is for themselves, it is relevant to install several mini stations in this same area ? It is because they do not often experience the pooling of resources that we have the feeling that it works alone for us and that together we are not sure of having our share..

But if you a street, where the four sell maybe 200L of gasoline per day. If we put a mini station, all things remaining equal, they will sell 200L of gasoline per day. Together they will see what each has contributed to the capital. If I brought 30%, I will have 30% profit. So this will also teach us to come together, work together, succeed together and become greater together.

Would you agree that we order 54000 mini stations ? Because if we have to do for each actor, today we must 54000 mini stations. Is this what we need? ? So that in a street, there will be three or even five mini stations. It’s not relevant and it doesn’t look like Benin today. This is why awareness is being raised with their representatives and we hope that everyone understands the logic..

What will be the mode of allocation of said mini stations? ? Will the sellers buy them from the managing company? ?

We put the mini stations at their levels and what they will pay as tax will be defined. So that once they start, let them know that every day, they have to pay such amount as tax.

Arrangements are made. This is why for some time now you have seen the dynamics of the establishment of classic service stations in our country.. For example, the old Sonacop stations were handed over to private individuals who began to rehabilitate them and this is not only in Cotonou. Now with mini stations, we indicated that where there was none, these mini stations will be deployed. The locations have been identified. There has to be traffic for consumers to come and get the product. So upstream, the marking was done so that the stations are accessible and the product is available to users.

How to register to enter the formal and benefit from the mini stations ?

For someone who wants to market gasoline today, he will see the umbrella organizations or go to the company which is created to take care of the distribution of petroleum products. The person will approach this company and say that they want to settle in the hydrocarbon field, not as a seller of “kpayo”. The person will ask to register to be able to benefit from it. The umbrella organizations are the transmission corridor between the actors and the State so they are the ones who will carry the message and it will be done.

A few weeks after the Sème Kraké drama, what is the evolution of the situation in relation to the identification of the bodies and also in relation to the situation of the injured who are in the hospital ?

This is a painful subject and we hope that this will not happen again in our country. The procedure for identifying the bodies began with the Ministry of Health's appeal to families so that the samples that must be taken from family members can be done.. I don't have the details of the situation today to say how many have already done so and how many are expected.

But in any case, you followed the press release from the Minister of Health who invited family members to come forward, as we did when this situation occurred in Dassa. Once the samples are obtained, they will be sent to the indicated laboratory for analyzes linked to the samples which will be taken from the available remains. And from that moment on, on a scientific basis, each remains can be identified and attributed to the member of such family who would have died during this tragedy.

You can be reassured that we will do everything to ensure that the results are consistent with what science can achieve today when circumstances are as complicated as these.

Regarding the sick, I recalled here that the government diligently requested that their full coverage be at the expense of the public treasury. And this is what is currently happening. The days after, we lost one of them. But I haven't heard since then that there were any other losses, unless you talk about it with the Minister of Health or with those responsible for Cnhu. But I think if that were the case, in Week, Monday in committee and Wednesday in council, perhaps the Minister of Health would have informed. If it didn't escape him, we consider that this is the status quo compared to the latest information we have had.

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