Ghana’s government quietly reintroduced fuel subsidies in April, and has spent about $85m since then in extra payments, the head of the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors told Reuters on Friday.
The subsidies were scrapped early last year in a bid to reduce the budget deficit and restore macro-economic stability in Ghana.
The reintroduction has not been publicly announced and senior government officials were unavailable for comment.

I am not an economist, but the government has to do something about mass suffering.