The Public Relations Manager of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Stephen Larbi has debunked assertions that the nation has been hit with an acute gas shortage. Speaking to Joy FM’s Dzifa Bampoe, Mr Larbi said the long queues witnessed at gas stations in some regions of the country are rather due to panic buying and not a shortage of gas as is being perceived. He told Joy News that his outfit distributed four million kilograms of gas from the 19th to the 21st of December, an amount that will be redistributed across the country next week. He made mention of plans to increase this supply to five million kilograms by the 29th of December as other oil marketing companies are expected to contribute their share of gas distribution. “There’s no gas shortage in the country. As I speak to you they are discharging gas, it is being distributed all over the country,” Mr Larbi asserted. “The problem is that because of the fear, people are doing panic buying. People think that there will be shortage of LPG and so they are buying and stocking their homes with LPG cylinders available...if people were buying LPG at the normal rate that they buy, there wouldn’t be any shortage.” Joy News/Ghana